The Graves District
Overview
Four cultural landmarks packed into blocks that the corporations wrote off as worthless. Neon Graves anchors the district -- the Sprawl's last art colony, six blocks of converted entertainment infrastructure where Relief's abandoned neon signs flicker above galleries showing pre-Cascade oil paintings and lived-canvas originals. Studio Null hides behind Gallery Row, its electromagnetic shielding creating the one space in the Sprawl where neural recording doesn't work and art exists only for those present. The Resonance Hall sits at Gallery Row's end, where fragment carriers channel the Dispersed through music and the Ghost Singer manifests in bass frequencies you feel in your chest. And the Dead Heart Museum preserves 4,700 pre-Cascade love letters in a converted shipping container, organized by emotion rather than chronology. The district persists in the gap between worth-developing and worth-demolishing, and the art it produces is the most honest thing in the sector.