- Role: Solo developer — concept, interaction design, and React development.
- Stack: React, Flickr API (date + geolocation querying).
- Context: Developed for a public open call for projects. Live tool.
Arqueología Flickeriana is a web tool that lets you excavate the photographs uploaded on a single chosen date across the different states of Mexico–a daily, collective, unfiltered portrait of a country, assembled from the images ordinary people happened to share that day.
The premise is a small bet about images. I’m drawn to photos uploaded to Flickr because they tend to feel more human and spontaneous than the heavily-curated, performative images of mainstream social platforms. So I built a tool around that material: query the Flickr API by date and location, and reassemble the results into a snapshot of a specific day, state by state.
The idea driving the whole build is simultaneity: the quiet fact of many lives happening at once, in different places, on the same day. The interface is designed to make that legible, not as individual experiences but as a collective emotional and visual landscape. It’s a kind of digital archaeology, surfacing the layers of ordinary life as captured by ordinary people.
In a world increasingly defined by filtered experiences, Arqueología Flickeriana is a deliberate counterpoint, an invitation to sit with the complexity and the plainness of human existence, one photograph at a time.
