With oil flowing from Santa María, El Banco de Nuevo León in Monterrey started giving out money like candy to cunning entrepreneurs that saw their opportunity, despite their legality. With so much development occurring at once, they were insured that most would find success. Without knowledge of anyone in Santa María, the brother in law of Tamaulipas governor Horacio Aguilar was awarded a contract to build a highway to the coast. The governor, alerted to the amount of additional oil Pemex would be transferring to refineries, put money in the deal. Anonymously of course. He nudged the bank to go along with it, hinting at a bank preference for all state transactions that were to take place after the approval.
A novella by Nicholas Gill and Alejandro Cartagena.
A collection of 151 “expired photographs” that were thrown out, collected from a tianguis outside of Mexico City by photographer and archivist Alejandro Cartagena and then pieced together and reimagined by writer Nicholas Gill. The 151-page novella tells the tale of the fictional town of Santa María de las Rocas, located in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
The story traces this coastal community from its humble origins at the turn of the century to the 1980s, as it corresponds to real events in the history of this corner of Mexico. As years pass, the landscape changes and the community grows and develops. There’s corruption and violence, magic and hope. Characters fall in love and fall apart. Their voices are heard. Their songs are sung.
The existence of this project is designed to question the very nature of storytelling and its possibilities in the digital age. As such, it’s done as a CO0, for free public use.
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With oil flowing from Santa María, El Banco de Nuevo León in Monterrey started giving out money like candy to cunning entrepreneurs that saw their opportunity, despite their legality. With so much development occurring at once, they were insured that most would find success. Without knowledge of anyone in Santa María, the brother in law of Tamaulipas governor Horacio Aguilar was awarded a contract to build a highway to the coast. The governor, alerted to the amount of additional oil Pemex would be transferring to refineries, put money in the deal. Anonymously of course. He nudged the bank to go along with it, hinting at a bank preference for all state transactions that were to take place after the approval.
A novella by Nicholas Gill and Alejandro Cartagena.
A collection of 151 “expired photographs” that were thrown out, collected from a tianguis outside of Mexico City by photographer and archivist Alejandro Cartagena and then pieced together and reimagined by writer Nicholas Gill. The 151-page novella tells the tale of the fictional town of Santa María de las Rocas, located in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
The story traces this coastal community from its humble origins at the turn of the century to the 1980s, as it corresponds to real events in the history of this corner of Mexico. As years pass, the landscape changes and the community grows and develops. There’s corruption and violence, magic and hope. Characters fall in love and fall apart. Their voices are heard. Their songs are sung.
The existence of this project is designed to question the very nature of storytelling and its possibilities in the digital age. As such, it’s done as a CO0, for free public use.