The Abundant City

“Abundant City” imagines a world where human presence has vanished, yet the systems they built continue to function in quiet repetition. Towers of circuitry rise like skyscrapers, capacitors become monuments, and the grid glows with the memory of a metropolis that once lived with noise and breath. Above this silent landscape, aircraft drift through the artificial sky, still searching for signals of life — an instinct etched into them long before humanity disappeared. In this miniature universe, abundance and absence coexist. The city is full, yet empty; alive, yet abandoned. The aircraft hover with purpose, but no one remains to witness their duty. What unfolds is a meditation on creation outlasting its creators — a poetic reflection on how machines inherit the world we leave behind. “Abundant City” is not a story of destruction, but of persistence — a place where the search continues, even when the meaning has already gone.