Several miles away from downtown Mexico City, there are still evidences of more than 800 homes that apparently existed until 2012 beside Lake Texcoco, in the salty plateau of the Hidalgo y Carrizo lot. These houses stood on this seemingly uninhabitable terrain, with no infrastructure, no close connection to the urban life style. There are no documents, images, or maps referencing them: their existence has not been signaled. It is possible that dogs and wild hares lived by the houses. It’s also possible that spiders, scorpions, snakes, ants, and other minuscule dwellers haunted these human settlements, but not enough to make them retreat.
From afar, the houses’ remainders appear like gleaming dots on the sandy, salty ground: a layer of glass fragments reflects the sunlight like a mirror, lining the land like an unruly, translucent mosaic. [...]