Cerro Rico, the biggest silver mine of its time, cradle of the riches of the colonial world. Uncommon wealth ostentation and bloody slave labor ran through its alleys. Plated coins for kings and noblemen where minted in its bowels.
The antropomorphic city of Jerusalem. All times occuring simultaneously.
The Dome of the rock, the head. Al-Aqsa, the shoulder. Its left arm, the mount of olives and the crusaders approaching a city guarded by Saladin. Its right arm, A man carrying a cross towards the future site where a church will be built. The Wailing Wall its chest. In a knee, the tower of David attacked by Nebuchadnezzar II. In the other Titus sacking the second temple. Moses and the Arch of the covenant entering the city through the Jaffa gate.
Graphite and digital color. Part of an ongoing series about cities.
At the gates of the Sahara. The city of 333 saints. Once a center of culture and trade, house of universities and riches in the Mali and Songhai empires. As it once emerged from the sands, now being swallowed slowly by them.
Mendeleieval times (periods and columns) by Darío Mekler
Recently found illuminated manuscript. XIV Century
Elements being grouped by class according to its properties. Each one occupying a specific place in the general scheme and adding to the functioning of the system.
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