a map is a score for a new world

MAPS IS A GENERATIVE SCRIPT STORED ON THE BLOCKCHAIN. EACH MINT GENERATES A UNIQUE SVG USING A SEED HASH.

THE INITIAL INSPIRATION FOR MAPS WAS THE IDEA THAT GRAPHIC NOTATION CAN CREATE A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT OUTPUTS FOR MUSIC.

THIS LED TO USING SPRITES, A FORM OF GRAPHIC NOTATION THAT GIVES A SENSE OF HOW THINGS MOVE WITHOUT BEING ANIMATED, AS THE LAYOUT TO EXPLORE EACH WORLD.

DOG DAYS

BOGOTA

Alec Soth

Alec Soth (born 1969) is an American photographer, based in Minneapolis. Soth makes "large-scale American projects" featuring the midwestern United States. New York Times art critic Hilarie M. Sheets wrote that he has made a "photographic career out of finding chemistry with strangers" and photographs "loners and dreamers". His work tends to focus on the "off-beat, hauntingly banal images of modern America" according to The Guardian art critic Hannah Booth. He is a member of Magnum Photos.

My wife and I adopted our baby girl, Carmen Laura, from Bogotá, Colombia. While the courts processed her paperwork, we spent two months in Bogotá waiting to take Carmen home. Carmen’s birthmother gave her a book filled with letters, pictures and poems.

"I hope that the hardness of the world will not hurt your sensitivity. When I think about you I hope that your life is full of beautiful things."

• Carmen's birthmother With those words as a mission statement, I began making my own book for Carmen. In photographing the city of her birth, I hope I’ve described some of the beauty in this hard place. – Alec Soth