This morning, I caught you in a drop on my finger

Memories carried by water drench our biographies and shared history. This book on the waters of Mexico City contains a series of visual essays, maps, love letters and reflections edited and curated by Moniek Driesse.

In this bilingual (Spanish/English) publication, imaginaries of the past, present, and future that govern our relationship with water, are permitted to draw maps that can serve as tools to re-imagine our relationships with our surroundings. In Mexico City, the imposition of modernist planning regimes by a capitalism turned into predatory neo-liberalism, has depleted subterranean basins, while rainstorms frequently flood the rivers that were asphalted to become highways. Moniek Driesse’s work explores how long-term memories carried in the urban landscape can redraw narrative lines of care for, and acknowledgement of, the role of others – humans, non-humans, waters – in shaping our world.