AN EXISTENTIAL ABSURDITY OF VASTNESS
The city exists in an uncanny liminal state, where belonging feels impossible, pressed beneath national identity, political handovers and the cycle of economic rise and collapse. The city and it’s inhabitants suffer from an inability of self-recognition, therefore the inhabitants become estranged from themselves, yearning for belonging, something that is essential to being, is stunted and repressed, and felt as something shameful. The city and its people, fragmented, are left in a state of limbo and decay. It seems that the only home left that people can turn to and find solace, is the idea of a coherent home and a lost future, that exists in memory.
“People who didn’t just lift themselves up with their roots but who may have no roots left at all ?” (Hayes 1998).
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