Homo Bulla
Design Fiction / Storytelling
Homo Bulla was a submission for Blank Space: Fairy Tales edition in January 2019. The brief was to tell a story about an alternate architectural reality using text and five images. This was a collaboration with Vi Vu.
“Six months and six days ago the humans of Philadelphia woke up to find a violet balloon, big enough and flexible enough, to wedge itself comfortably between City Hall and the Comcast building, in that exact location.”
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“It was not unusual for people within a certain distance of the balloon to suddenly find themselves in its shadow or on top of it, with little recollection as to how they got there.”
Homo Bulla juxtapositions the elasticity of the human mind with that of an urban fabric and explores their intersection. It highlights the human need for answers and the terror and awe of the inexplicable. Homo Bulla uses three vignettes to portray the void that is left behind when the balloon disappears one day as suddenly as it appeared.
“As compelling as his memories were, the past and his perception of the external world, were constructs of his mind. There was no proof that either of them were real. ”