Significant Yellow Item: #2021.Y004

 

Significant Yellow Item: #2021.Y004, Southeast Leicester, January 2021

First contact was made on a bleak day, amongst the city's sweated southeastern tracts.  Overlooked by grim, mal-audited fortresses of piecework, the street itself was an entropic backwater of scattered debris - long drained of energy.  We were already deep into the current emergency, but official restrictions remain of little consequence in such zones.  Consequently, the constant  shift patterns remain unbroken, transmitting one unto another in fulfilment of the contract.  The encounter was soundtracked by a subdued machine clatter, syrupy orchestration and that familiar cinematic wailing, typical of the territory.  Dim illumination perspired from diseased tubes, behind greasy windows, on those occupied storeys.  In the street, the cold was a windless, steady-state fact - bitter and irrefutable.       

We can only speculate about the selection of such a setting.  Motivations remain obscure at the best of times, and the correct context is (as is commonly recognised), essential.  What does seem certain is that an insertion of such high visibility could only have been performed in order to manifest some small release of parallel reality.  The precision-moulded grids and structural intricacies employed, speak of a technology far in advance of our own - as could seen by comparison with other primitive stacked structures that littered the scene.  But it is the chromatic physics of the self-coloured enclosure which really place it outside everyday optical constraints as currently understood.  In the prevailing conditions, it was impossible to comprehend how these wavelengths of light could operate amidst such despondency.  Might even an entirely divergent system of physics be in operation?      

That the artefact should act as a receptacle for routine detritus was  a notable incongruity, even on that most quotidian of days.  Despite its shored-up and expedient surroundings, basic  opportunistic practicality seems inappropriate to its crisp geometry and concentrated radiance.  Such a yellow appears to exceed mere function.  Taking this into account, and also reflecting upon the distinctly artificial off-kilter positioning - the overriding impression is, once more, of some manifestation having been deliberately secreted in plain site.