The City that started as a Square is a story I wrote in New York in 2017 and converted into an illustrated and interactive publication for theRobert.xyz in 2018. It was published as a booklet in 2019 with the Happy Potato Press.
The story is about a city that starts as a lonely little square, but that keeps on expanding and expanding, until there isn’t any space in the universe left.
Once upon a time there was a city. The city started as a lonely little square on a large piece of land. The square did not know how it got there. The only thing it knew was how to grow. Because it was surrounded by so much space and so alone, the square split itself in two. Over time, the two squares became three, the three became four, until, one day, together, they formed a small village… (Excerpt)
Read, see or click through the whole story at theRobert.xyz
