A speculative underground refuge in Iceland exploring survival, hierarchy, and morality beneath permafrost.
Nuclear war renders Earth’s surface uninhabitable. Humans burrow into Iceland’s palsa—soft rock immune to radiation, moving with geological activity.
Vertical hierarchy: wealth descends, poverty remains near surface. Mutated poor labor to sustain lower-level “Eden.” Structure follows palsa’s linear geological divisions—horizontal and
vertical cuts share logic maintaining stability. Parasitic sanctuary in earth’s corner