Welcome back to The Video Game City Week.
Next up, a visit to some familiar slums.
Midgars slums have no real sky.
And yet, in their vivid authenticity, stand taller than the places above them.
Shops and houses hewn from a hodgepodge of discarded industrial scrap, made warm with smatterings of personal effects.
Inside giant pipes, abandoned vehicles, and steel shacks, the people of the slums live and work.
In the visual arts, the word bricolage refers to works made from recycled or disparate materials.
Its French, essentially meaning DIY, which means its also a loanword to english.
I find this nerdily satisfying, since the word itself refers to a kind of syncretism.
Their futures halted, they shape fresh tommorows through a syncretic reclamation of that same industry.
In Midgar, youll occasionally find a greco-roman pillar scattered among the detritus.
Ancient ruins, or discarded casino props?
Neither would seem out of place, non-place as the city is.
Time, then, to gather the remains of stolen futures, and build something new.
