Tale X: Cloud Platform

It is a place enveloped in a thick fog that envelops people as soon as they step into the space. When people are alone in a location, the pitch blackness prevents them from feeling the changes in space and the flow of time. However, this phenomenon changes markedly when people try to get together with others: a light will come from high up, illuminating the group gathered together, and a breeze will blow, lifting the fog from this small space. The more the crowd gathered, the larger the illuminated area became, and this waxed and waned. A small mass of light also appears in this world shrouded in darkness and fog.

The scenario is based on the idea that in modern development the individual’s existence is no longer entirely under his or her control. The value of the individual’s existence is also in question. Can the individual exist independently of the collective? Is there an illusion that the nomad community, in the evolving modern world, can clearly perceive its own existence as dying out? Are these nomads, as described in ‘Waiting for Godot’:

Lets go. They do not move.