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I am curious about a city that is impossible to describe with words and one that changes its identity across a duration of occupation. Perhaps the act of describing a place as palimpsest as this city of Aglaura truly does kill the image of it, simply by the limitations of language. The distance between the experience and synthesis of the space and the mental processing it takes to describe that complexity verbally is simply too many steps. By the time the words are conjured, time has passed and the city has evolved. What was in one instant its defining characteristic has seamlessly evolved into its underbelly.

Aglaura describes a place where language evolves as quickly as culture. Where generations are distanced not by decades, but by minutes, and morality is in a constant state of flux. Aglaura could be any city and is every city that has ever been described in words. Aglaura is a place that cannot be described for what it is, but only for what it is not, and it is simultaneously both like and unlike every other city real or imagined.