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In what had been a rural backwater with few cars and formal constructions, a rustic hamlet where humans and nature intermingled peacefully, Santa María quickly began to resemble a modern Mexican city. It could have been some town near Guadalajara or Puebla. Electric lines appeared, connected to the grid through the luckless communities that sprang up on the maze of uneven roads that penetrated through the matorral. In the center, a neat grid of streets appeared, adorned with street lights and sidewalks. The buildings around the plaza, home to banks, tailors and the offices of oil executives, were expanded and completely renovated. On the shore, a boardwalk was added, and the mangroves were chopped up to expand the beaches.
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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In what had been a rural backwater with few cars and formal constructions, a rustic hamlet where humans and nature intermingled peacefully, Santa María quickly began to resemble a modern Mexican city. It could have been some town near Guadalajara or Puebla. Electric lines appeared, connected to the grid through the luckless communities that sprang up on the maze of uneven roads that penetrated through the matorral. In the center, a neat grid of streets appeared, adorned with street lights and sidewalks. The buildings around the plaza, home to banks, tailors and the offices of oil executives, were expanded and completely renovated. On the shore, a boardwalk was added, and the mangroves were chopped up to expand the beaches.
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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Token StandardERC-1155
ChainEthereum
MetadataCentralized
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