New-Xim

In the year 2063, the plastic floating island, then called “The Trash Vortex" and which is now renamed "BT-Plax,” reached the California coast. A bridge was built to connect the island for further exploration. No inhabitants were found on the island and it became a new state after surprising quantities of treasures were found. Among them were deposits of synthetic bacteria used in the pharmaceutical and food industries, as well as water and fuel. Also found were three caverns with subterranean passages leading to one enclosure, where the hidden library is located in the heart of the BT-Plax. In this location the twentythree book-objects were found. The first one discovered was titled, "New Xim" which, apparently refers to a UV shape object with a cavity, holding a transparent plastic container where an ancient amulet used by the native South American of the earlier century; was found. It was a burned chicken bone considered "Lucky" . Also many colorful flexible pieces of plastic that were used as "erasers". All these elements seem to represent "luck" and "DNA.” The book-object gives definitions of key ideas ,for example: “Trasimeno”, “trash”, “trau-ma”, “tra-vail”. “Trasimeno", refers to a great battle fought in 217 BC, leaded by the Carthaginian general Anibal. "Tra-vail", means an oeuvre/work/piece of a painful character, that could be a reference to the construction of the library in the island BT-Plax. "Trash" refers to an old conception of waste that originally created the island "BT-Plax." The concepts of beauty and trash were contradictory. It is believed that this book-object, was an iconic representation about the way the plastic problem was being dealt with, but very little is yet known about it. Apparently, "New-Xim" was created in a period of time when "BT-Plax" was inhabited by a group of activist artists, followers of the "BT" philosophy. The book-object has a strange inscription in the posterior side, which says:” 0-07 a 052.033-X.” Its ritual use in celebrations in the "BT-Plax" before arriving to the Californian coast is still an enigma.