EVENT REPORT
LEIRIA CON
We travel to a gem of a games convention in the sometimes sunny Lisbon
Words by Ben Maddox
Klask gets an outing in the sun
A prototype from Timo Multamäki, resort building pictured in the background
Please allow me, just for a moment, to be crassly reductive and cliched. There are two sides to everything. Who we are in private compared to that agonisingly stretched face we show to the world, the things we think and the things we say, our need for rest and our need to cram as much as we can into these pitiful few years before we tear into the oblivion of death.
There are irreconcilable contradictions, oil struggling to pull itself away from the water it’s mixed with. Then there are those seeming contradictions, supposed opposites that manage to rub along together and, sometimes, manage to feed each other and create something vibrant and unique.
This is Leiria Con, an event that’s at once unabashedly local and at the same time, fiercely international.