Utopia Park

Utopia Park engages poetically with our fraught, fractured relationship to nature. The story follows Dom, an amateur scientist, as he studies strange phenomena he hears in the earth. Concerned he is encountering signs of impending ecological collapse, he becomes increasingly obsessed with his research, hoping to decipher hidden meaning in the sounds. His study results in the disquieting discovery that his body itself is a kind of conduit and resonator, and is, in fact, much closer to the source of the trouble than he’d realized. Dom’s charged encounters with the immaterial, invisible phenomena in the world of Utopia Park mirror our own private anxieties and bewilderment as the planet reacts to our abuse and negligence. The revelation that Dom’s body itself is caught in a feedback loop with his environment reflects our own reciprocal relationship to nature: the world we consider ourselves, preposterously, divorced from.