Taboo: Ties and Sins
The air was dense, charged with a symphony of primitive scents: the sweet, musty odor of aged wood, the pungent smell of machine oil, the penetrating metallic tang of iron, and, beneath it all, an earthy note of damp clay and peat.
It was chaos. An organized chaos, or perhaps merely tolerated. Sculptures covered with white sheets rose like gigantic ghosts, their hidden forms suggesting slumbering bodies. Heavy workbenches were cluttered with tools she couldn't name—sanders, blowtorches, saws with menacing teeth. Pieces of metal, wood, and stone lay in seemingly random piles that perhaps made sense only to the creator's eye. And in the center of this creative maelstrom, lit by a single Edison