The Indifferent Wonder of an Edible Place is an examination of the violence of erasure. It’s a story about a municipal building eater and attempts to ponder the violent cost and the profound grief of having to survive at the edge of despotism, when places of entangled heritage are willfully effaced.

## About This Game
The Indifferent Wonder of an Edible Place is a short, interactive tale about a
building eater consuming a tower on the edge of the town of Matsyapura. Using
a blend of descriptive text and surrealist visuals it is our attempt to ponder
the violence of erasure and the profound grief of having to survive on the
margins of history.

In 1960 when the state of Bombay split like an egg on the jagged edge of the
Western Ghats and formed the territories of Gujarat and Maharashtra, the town
of Matsyapura was abandoned by government decree – to make it easier to draw a
clean border between the new states.

Mir UmarHassan, the fabled Gujarati poet, lamented this willful and violent
erasure of an ancient town and in a delightful satirical poem titled : The
Building Eaters of Matsyapur, he wrote about the vapid consumption of a place
and the creation of a populace that is devoid of the flavors of their
individual and munificent past.

With recent cause to recollect the horror of the demolition of Babri Masjid in
Ayodhya, and in solidarity with the protests against the draconian actions of
our government – we are revisiting UmarHassan’s original poem.

Created with support from Phoenix, Leicester. A site-specific variant of the
game was displayed at Phoenix, Leicester. And at the Video Game Art Gallery in
Chicago.

The Indifferent Wonder of an Edible Place