The orders for fresh meat, vegetables, and produce were placed weekly on folded triangles of paper.
Spinning upwards into the tunnel, the orders were aerially distributed into nearby mukka forests.
The locals would hunt and harvest according to the orders and send a representative to the Groceteria to claim the monetary reimbursement.
Eric Liu
Heather Barker
Philippe Bergeron
Judy Cosgrove
Ronni Kimm
Anne White
At the time of death, memories and emotions are uploaded to the Collective of the post which are housed in the terraced and secure elevated landscape above the land. Permissions are granted by Lau to the population in return for service and loyalty.
David Falstrup, Geoff Manaugh
sous chef has an active career when not preparing dinner for rilao’s hoipoloi. He imports the latest designer drugs from the rainforest, cuts them down and sells the adulterated potions to the working class. The upper set gets the good stuff.
jef
Heather Barker
Philippe Bergeron
Judy Cosgrove
Ronni Kimm
Anne White
A center for trade and transport, Rilao’s floating district thus is also the center for sexual pleasure. A-must-visit for all merchants and tourists is its esteemed nightclub Elysium, owned, designed and run by famous experimental film director Dave Lynch. Famed for its allowance for all sexual preferences…
Kevin Tian
Heather Barker
Philippe Bergeron
Judy Cosgrove
Ronni Kimm
Anne White
A beverage made from traditional herbs that allows people to learn from each other by telepathic going through the other person’s life experiences.
Barbara R. Mota, Kevin Tian, Jonas Hjerberg, Jef Frankel, Eric Liu, Evin McMullen
This mysterious book started off as a rumor, but its existence was later confirmed by our archivists. Boldly illustrated, featuring botanical portraits and forest landscapes, it is a farmer’s almanac for newly arrived immigrants, with advice on gardening, weather, astronomy, and more. The problem: it is written in a strange mix of “Reo Taio” and local slang, making it un-translatable, a mystery.
Bruce Chesley,
Todd Furmanski,
Bill Hubbard,
Mark Huber,
Aga Szostakowska,
Ever since the government has been eavesdropping on the coral circuits, certain elements of society (followers of Lao) have dropped off the grid and formulated their own form of communicating with each other, by homing fish.
jef
Heather Barker
Philippe Bergeron
Judy Cosgrove
Ronni Kimm
Anne White
To celebrate the anniversary of Raymond Lao’s “discovery” of Rilao his vision for an oil power in the pacific, a flag featuring a large droplet of oil & the Independent Lao Oil Co. logo is waved in a parade staged by Lao’s right – wing at the fair disciples. This flag flies on major government buildings, imprinted on all the (?) that travel.
Kristin Grimlund
Frank Vitz
Ryan Ulyate
Matt Wilkinson
Joey Mann
“By 2014, Rilaoans have transcended the evils of colonialism initiated by Raymond Lau at the end of the 19th Century. Soul searching in every valley of the island leads to a unified goal of creating a large wilderness sanctuary on the island. A national song celebrates unity on the island.”
While investigating a wilderness society, we learned of this song from 2014 related to Rilaoan colonialism.
Brendan Harkin, Joanne Kuchera-Morin, Mark Montiel
The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
-Marcel Proust
After the Quarantine and enactment of mandatory cremations of infected bodies, Laoguna developed the tradition of memorializing late relatives by keeping their eyes–an emblem of their souls. The departed Laogunian was thought to receive a new pair of eyes upon entering the afterlife. The process, called “sighting” has long since been derided by Riloans of other districts, calling Laogunians who follow the tradition “Hollowers” after the hollow sockets left behind.
The manner of storing them became more and more elaborate over time, as did the tradition of representing the personality and the class of the person through decorations on the urn. Eye preservation techniques also evolved over the ages, and few early artifacts from the plague era exist. Nowadays, experienced morticians in Laoguna provide packages for every price point, including urns carved with increasing levels of craftsmanship.
This artifact (exhibit 1) comes from the Tali family, belonging to Teo Tali who died on his 87th birthday in the year 1974. Photo taken with permission from Ela Nali, his granddaughter, in October 2014.
When Nara Leoni was born blind to arguably the richest and most influential family in Laoguna, a shift took place in the tradition.
In 1984, Nara Leoni was born to the Leoni Family, the wealthiest and arguably the most influential family in Laoguna. But, Nara was born blind. After a difficult childhood and learning to read and “see” with his hands, Nara became one of the most acclaimed sculptors of Riloa. After his death at the young age of 26, the Leoni family adapted the Laogunian tradition to better reflect his particular circumstances (exhibit 2). This led to a new era in Laogunian memorialization. Most famously, Jani Ara requested in his will that his whole head be memorialized, leading to a legal debate (Ara v. Riloan Supreme Court).
Trisha Williams, and Spandana Myneni
