"The had been traveling for seven years. The columns of people moved through the steppe which stretched to the horizon. They were led by a group of horsemen, with women and children staying in the middle. Behind them, the heavily loaded wagons were slowly pulled by oxen with long twisted horns. The procession was closed by a troop of foot soldiers guarding the rear. Their route led them from the far-away city of Zhongdu encircled by over twenty feet high walls of black stone, through the red sands of the Central Desert and the contaminated marshes surrounding the deserted Kashagar metropolis built on the outline of a perfect hexagon. They usually walked by night keeping off the beaten track, away from the commercial routes. Their tents were woven from stiff sisal fibres obtained from a special species of agave and dyed red or deep brown. The technique was developed by their ancestors and perfected by later generations. According to the maps, soon they should see the salt-white banks of the Atal Lake surrounded from the North by a high mountain range, of which Mount Bogd Khan was the highest. There they planned to set up a camp and wait out the winter season – the season of snowstorms and increased radiation from the demagnetized poles of the planet."

 

(Text courtesy of GGM) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Gdańsk City Gallery

October 15th - December 18th, 2021