To chart the black sites of the Unknown Fields city the studio
commandeers an old US school bus and heads off on a reconnaissance trip
through the borderlands of military outposts and the crater-pocked,
fenced-off folkloric landscapes of the United States. The militarised
landscapes which defend the city are hidden behind barbed wire, within
inhospitable terrain or beneath the low resolution distortions of
doctored satellite images and beyond their physical might, they are
sites of psychological warfare, where rumour begins. High Strange is a
graphic novel developed together with embedded comic artist Kristian
Donaldson in response to the material Unknown Fields collected along
this journey. It is a portrait of a landscape as a factory of fictions.
A form of weaponised folklore. A territory that can be only understood
by examining the stories the world tells about it.