inflorescence.city
A newspaper of neverwas and mighthavebeen. A glimpse at life in a small town that trembles on the edge of existence. Another project by everest pipkin and loren schmidt.
Once upon a time, immigrant communities in America frequently had newspapers in the language of their home countries. This project feels like a vestige of that era, a small-town newspaper with lingering ties to an older, stranger era. Once foreign customs survive in turns of phrase imperfectly captured by the transcriber.
In my mind, the transcriber is an ethnographer who is in over her head, though it might equally be a machine trying to understand human behavior and being confounded by the not-quite-human inhabitants. But the overall tone isn’t quite Innsmouth or Night Vale; it feels closer to The Hidden Almanac.