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𝖁𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝕾𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖘 is loosely based upon a collection of stories by writer J.G Ballard. Set in an eccentric resort town in an unspecified time, art forms of all kinds are autonomous. In one story, a singing metal sculpture is dismantled into scrap metal, only to return with its music score once it is repurposed into car parts. In another, architecture becomes embedded with the personalities and emotions of its inhabitants, capable of even violently attacking them. Ballard’s hallucinatory enclave reflects his life-long appreciation for the visual arts, a merging of the literary and aesthetic. But outside of its fictional context, the collection makes prescient the very real, evolving and reciprocal relationship between artists, art and their environment. In the writer’s own words: ‘Each of us builds the mythology of our own lives out of the materials that surround us in our everyday streets’.⁠