Huea

SCRAP NOTES FROM 2021 - DEMO PAGE

Name derived from Chilean neutral-to-negative slang for "thing".

Spirits of the Dressed Desert, wearing physical forms incoherently tailored from the waste of humanity. They try to travel the Earth but always return to the clothing heaps to reproduce. Their desert means many different things to them, and their culture is engaged in a constant push-and-pull between viewing it as a sort of life-giving birthplace, and as a place of death, due to the environmental consequences of humanity creating it.

They create kites and sails out of clothes, billowing from the desert winds, used for recreation, hunting, and ritual. I wonder if they can kill and eat the semiotic seraphim living here? Will they come into conflict with the human's laborers?

What are these spirits and how do they interact with the physical world? Perhaps they possess ancient needles from Mesoamerican tombs, which they can move as if still held by a human hand.

Whirling tailored forms spinning through the air, kill or be killed, burning charred flesh.

Gigantic mass goes crashing and burning like the Hindenburg.

blowing up the crisis in an almost Borgesian way.

Chile has the second-highest number of endemic species in South America, after the Galapagos. The Andes mountains to the east, Arctic and Pacific oceans to the south and west, and the Atacama desert to the north make it difficult for life to leave Chile once it enters, so biologically life here evolved with a kind of pseudo-island effect.

Obviously the desert alluded to isn't literally the Atacama, but this novel, strange form of life being endemic to that very crucial geological border between the "island" and the broader South American mainland is evocative.

The hummingbird was chosen from not only my broader study of mythology, but my longtime love of the Nazca lines.
Was what the Incan empire inspired awoken by the US empire?

The hummingbirds are tied to colossial symbols looming large, literally carved in the desert, and yet sail around on small, mundane symbols.

The use of discarded USA waste could be anglocentric, but in the context of the southern cone it gets more interesting. So much of Chilean culture has a kind of North American affect imposed on it, the national dish is the completo which is just an adaptation of the USA's hot dog. Since Pinochet, the official economic model is neoliberalism imposed by the first world. This plot point wouldn't work in prouder nations like Brazil or Mexico, but if anywhere is gonna have hummingbird spirits wake in the waste of first world dregs, it's Chile or Argentina. Or Costa Rica. I'm told they cucked as fuck.

the way Latin America chews through and reworks what the first world gives in order to create our own endemic cultures.

The decay of clothing often has hazardous effects on the environment
What happens to clothes at the end of their lives?