"The Revelation of Ghost City"
Section MS10, Freya Spencer-Wood
Keywords: set design, landscape, spatial politics, climate emergency, geology, spirituality, neoliberalism
An apocalyptic story of quartzite jade in Ghost City
It was formed from scorching cracks and appeared in lakebeds, known as Five-Coloured quartzite jade. When Mount Buzhou collapsed, the sky fell, and the earth shattered. Goddess Nüwa refined it to mend the sky. It lay in silence for millennia, waiting for the transformative tides of time to awaken it. Once, a traveller bought it by chance, over ten years, its value significantly increased. Treading through the Gobi Desert, there is nowhere to be found. Ruts are everywhere, and sandstorms fill the sky. Human desires can be difficult to satisfy, do not allow greed to lead us to doomsday once more.