Cities with buildings that look like buds about to bloom, irregular windows of odd shapes, open daisies with living spaces, and roadways going in organized and haphazard ways. A city that resembles a vase of flowers. Apparition-shaped vehicles look as if they are flower petals and insects flying about the city, with roadway tubes and open highways as if they are like beams of light shimmering around the city.

It’s the city of the imagination, where buildings take the form of flowers; think of the technical skills needed to develop such structures. People live in these odd shapes, they don’t like the idea of box-shaped rooms, and they prefer unusual places. Books or kitchen things are stored in what resembles a natural cave. Natural extensions protrude from the walls and compare things to sit on. Anything is possible in these irregular rooms.

Mythical cities are anything a spectator or discoverer wishes them to be; the engineer and designer of the imagination can construct fantastic forms.

Strange other forms of the building are like buds that spread seeds to create new cities; people had followed these seeds, that is, and was their way of finding new homes. Some people wish to leave the ancient cities, but most stay because of their prideful beauty. Years ago, the towns were built by the hands of people by using machines that spun the shapes into existence, like threads or tubes of coiled clay being melted to create flower-like forms. Also, there are forms of solidified light that are hollowed out, the shell becoming the outer building and the interior being worked by designers, engineers, and artists to transform into a place to live and be comfortable.

By night or day, the cities were beautiful places to look at.

Robert J. Matsunaga