A brief dissection of the narrative.
Passersby is an ever-constructing narrative driven by Lyrical Selfs, individuals with strong or weak personalities who construct stories expressed in collectible art pieces called Spaces. The entire Passersby universe is represented primarily by 1-Bit Pixel Art, music and literary works.
1. 1-Bit Pixel Art
A cool name invented to refer to black and white; but that’s not mandatory. Other combinations of complementary colors — Two colors that offer the most contrast to each other — are also used very often. For Passersby i chose the colors Cinder and Mercury — which are very close to black and white but subtly different — . 1-Bit is an amazing way to approach pixel art because it encourages you to think about structures while trying to represent something — And gives me a lot of nostalgia — .
2. Lyrical Selfs
In literature, we have the lyrical self as the voice that speaks to us, not necessarily the author’s voice. This resource gives us freedom to create imaginative representations of our creative thoughts. In Passersby each individual is called a Lyrical Self and it’s represented by one auctioned 1/1 avatar.
3. Spaces
Spaces represent narrative spaces of one or more Lyrical Selfs (in case they meet). Every Spaces has an observation to deliver, textually or non-textually oriented, with the proposal of giving this narrated universe of these individuals stories and experiences eventual possible interactions.
A Spaces is first represented by a visual piece and can be extended to other types of representations that are contextually attached, these being textual, auditory, etc.
4. Holding a Lyrical Self
A Lyrical Self entitles you to be an influence on your individual’s story. In addition to interpret and collect audiovisual narratives, you have opportunities to interact with it, being me, the author, the mediator. A brief example: Nastenka visits her old house and finds an audiotape; It’s up to the person who collected Nastenka to decide whether to take it with them, and with that receive a NFT of that audiotape, which will be listed in a series called Lost and Found. Holding a Lyrical Self guarantees the collector an airdrop of all the Spaces that their Lyrical Self is present from its acquisition, in the event of a change of the ownership the new owner becomes the recipient of these Places.
5. Will it be represented by just Lyrical Self and Spaces?
No. The idea is to expand the forms of delivery that this artistic experience can provide us, this is why the Lost and Found series is an important piece of this narrative. The items acquired through Spaces, being these represented in a textual, visual or auditory way, can generate possible interactions that will be reflected later or exist as a memory of one of these experiences provided by the narratives, in a collectible way. Some of these items can be used in situations that are justifiable within the context of a Spaces reflecting on future events, sometimes requiring its burning.
