The leaves growing round the base are scruffy and detract from the power of the image, though I suppose that might be telling that the sculpture is now neglected. The splintering of the roots and lower branch are tacky, too on the nose, though I suppose that could be damage rather than part of the original sculpture. It was very good and I wish I'd visited it more.Īnyway, back to Deus Ex. Giant cracking cubes sat next to casts of Frankensteined toys smooth horns curled and rose around decaying oranges a prone human figure, soil and growing potatoes wedged into cracks, gems pressed into its surface, and water bottles dripping into its chest held by rods. Its centrepiece was a vault with shelves containing several thousand unfired clay objects, feeling like an alien intelligence had visited long-dead human civilisation and couldn't distinguish people from possessions or even live from dead. I'm reminded a bit of Today We Reboot the Planet, an installation at the Serpentine Sackler gallery in 2013 by Adrián Villar Rojas. I would say "Ooh!" if I saw it in the street or a gallery, and circle it beaming. It's a matter of perspective, and very Deus Ex-y either way. The tree meeting the cube might be the precise, technical growth of humanity abandoning the organic, or perhaps the organic is being destroyed by that same hard-edged technology - though branches continued to grow and curl around the cube. Pushed to play the misguided-but-kinda-fun-anyway game of "What does it mean?" I might say something about the growth of human civilization with the organic, and the relationship between the two. Let's break it down into parts, from the bottom up: a base of many blocks of different sizes and shapes (buildings?) a dead tree and a honking great concrete cube engulfing the upper branches. That's great that, isn't it? Let's have a closer look: The sculpture on the right - the withered tree holding aloft a concrete cube. I am, however, really into a sculpture which appears in one screenshot of the Prague city hub. Sending me four new Deus Ex: Mankind Divided screenshots for Gamescom (I say 'screenshots' - one looks like an actual screenshot and even that might be staged), Square Enix are probably hoping I'll gush over the graphics tech or pore over them for plot hints.
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