At the start of the weekend, Cica Ghost sent me – as she always kindly does – to visit her latest installation for 2026. Entitled Secret Tribe, it is a setting which seeks to quite literally elevate us by offering a walk around multiple tall platforms linked together by way of bridge-like walkways gently hung between them. Ladders from the ground climb up to these platforms, allowing visitors yto reach them after descending from the Landing Point.
The platforms are either roughly circular or rectangular in shape, each with a fence border. Like pretty much everything within the setting, the platforms are made of wood, as are the oddly-shaped houses sitting on some of them. These in turn have something of an oddly-shaped acorn look about them.
The land beneath the platforms and walkways shares the colour of the wood, but is hardly barren; flowers grow across it, offering starbursts of soft colour. The beauty of the flowers is are a little offset by the roots also rising from the ground and curling their across it before burrowing back under the surface like troops of worms wriggling across the landscape.
This is a place that is home to fantastical wooden creatures, from beetles inviting you to dance on one of the platforms, to a giant hollow-bellied horse and a strange cat partnering with a giant bird. Among all of these, a trio of ordinary geese are the ones who look out of place!
This is perhaps the point of the setting: a presentation of the fantastical, the unknown – the strange; creatures at ease with one another – the bird and the cat -; who work with and respect the nature things at their disposal, carving their homes from wood. To be united in their life and pursuits, to be at piece with their environment. It’s a feeling amplified by the text – of unknown origin – Cica has chosen to describe Secret Tribe:
Not connected by blood but rather by energy.
Those who are there for you through the good and the bad, those who are patient, and those who are
supportive of you and your dreams.
With places to sit, opportunities to dance, Cica once again offers a setting that mixes positivity and emotions, a place we can share and enjoy.
Slurl Details
- Spirit Tribe (Mysterious Isle, rated Moderate)
Inara Pey: Living in a Modemworld 