It is broken in half, creating an imperfect split with two fleshy mountains rising high into the clouds: roughly two feet high. These peaks create borderlands between a concrete desert and a grassland jungle, whilst being split into by the red sea, and flanked to the south.
Everything is pleasantly situated, only three feet west of a grand fortress of dirt, led by companies of six legged myrmidons climbing down from their parapets and high walls to ford and to discover this new grand formation high above the world.
The mountains’ coloration remains a solid brown from the western side, but the eastern side reveals their secret; the shining red half, each red slope facing one another. A brave traveler could make it to the top and stare down at the gorge separating the two peaks, watching the red rivers flow into the deep bloody sea.
The real majesty of the red side were the caverns and pathways which led to grand secrets and great perils. Fliers would travel to the freshest caves, to lay down their children and wait for the caves to die away. True adventurers could travel in deep, discovering hidden pockets of digested food among acid laced tunnels.
Circumventing these formations leads to the discovery of more alien geometries. Long, leg branches to see across the perilous desert (with rubbery death traps flying faster than the speed of comprehension) and a giant face staring at any travelers approaching from the north. The face remains solemn, with an eternal grimace of pain and knowledge, bequeathing itself upon anyone who dares to face this behemoth.
It is upon this place that viewers can be encased in its natural beauty, and understand the lessons of life and death.
I'll spoil it for everyone. It's the deer carcass I passed on my way to school last week, split in two by a transfer truck. I decided I wanted to examine this thing from the perspective of an ant or a tiny insect, and so I decided to describe the sight in a way that fantastical cartographers might first discuss a strange and alien land.
ReplyDeleteGack. Split in two? [Vomiting.] It's a great idea. really like it. It was clear early on that the landscape was some kind of body, some kind of biological entity, which is a pretty fascinating thing whether you want to go sci fi with it or fabulist or something else. It becomes more successful, though, once you allow the idea to separate from its real origin and become a phenomenon of its own world. Keep working with this.
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