Narrative about freedom of speech, communication and dreams with help by international artists

Writing a narrative about freedom of speech in Europe is like trying to throw a bottle in an ocean with written words inside it.

 The world where we live in right now is full of people who think that know everything about life and all that it matters in it is money (no matter what you do in order to have it).

 I clearly know that I don't have freedom of speech and to all people who think that have this sort of freedom, I can only tell you that you're wrong.

 People can't SAY what's in their minds because if you do this, you'll be judged in a socalled anarchist "society" by your own words or feelings in this Kafkaesque world that we live in.

 What I can tell you, is that a simple concept such as "communication" can be used either in a good or in a wrong way.

 I know that even if you're communicating in a proper way, it'll exist people that will tell you that you're doing everything in a wrong way, so that they can profit with your skills based on this art form or your own work.

 This happens lots of times in life, if you're a single human being or an individual and you're communicating with enterprises that only want to profit with your work.

 In this example, you're not communicating with human beings, you're communicating with people that love cash and themselves more than anything in this world (usually this kind of people act nicely and will even tell you that they're helping you or that they love you while clearly knowing that they're stealing your work in order to have profit).

 Dreams are a different subject, because in them you can be whoever you want to be and be wherever you want to be.

 I've thought on using for this narrative some printed artworks or pictures that clearly shows examples of what I've mentioned before based on concepts such as "freedom of speech", "communication" or "dreams", below are some examples with a direct narrative.

Sometimes poetry is in my mind, heart and soul while writing love stories with a personalized t-shirt by Brazilian photographer Alex Korolkovas based on two XXI century women near a statue that was vanished of a man selling newspapers and that appeared once again intact in the prettiest city in the world.

I know that I own several personalized t-shirts or mugs with artworks by some of the best international artists ever that can actually be seen and read in narratives in previous posts in this same blogue.

 How can a simple guy such as myself have permission to print artworks by the best international artists ever?

 I believe that this was based on the work that I've show that could be made either with a lost character based on a XX century woman, a published book collection by Italian maestro Crepax worldwide distributed by American book publishing company Fantagraphics (where my name appears on it), an upcoming book collection with graphic stories with adaptations of world wide well known tales by writers such as German writers Grimm Bros, American writers H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe among many others or even to historical characters such as Argentine fighter Che Guevara or Argentine politician Evita Perón and that I've single handlely organized in a collection dedicated to Argentine maestro Alberto Breccia and that will be published and also worldwide distributed by Fantagraphics book publishing company.

 I know that I've curated exhibitions based on these two huge book collections by these two big names in arts (Italian maestro Guido Crepax and Argentine maestro Alberto Breccia), with cats as pets, with strong words such as "Identity" or "Permanent" forming a narrative, an exhibition of a XXI century woman based on my friend and musician Svetlana Nagaeva (bassist from Russian band Messer Chups) with her character Zombierella with help by international artists and that I'm writing a book based on it to be published, worldwide distributed with promotion made by Zombierella in her gigs around the world either alone or with Russian band Messer Chups. 

Trying to do some sort of magic with words and an artwork based on me by French artist Isabel Pessoa

 I also know my origins and I do try to show them by putting objects decorated with portuguese tiles in framed pictures along artworks by some of the best international artists ever within a narrative while being aware that written words always had power in world history.

 I've written this small text in a picture of myself that can be seen above: "I'm sure that I'm somewhere between life and death, I shake hands with the devils and walk past them.I also know that there's no rest for me in this world, perhaps in the next." in a picture of mine near an illustration of portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa that can be seen above as some sort of feeling regarding life.

Artworks by Argentine artist Mr Ed and Spanish artist Fidel Martínez Nadal
about A XX century woman lost in my hometown and an artwork based on myself by my friend and Argentine maestro ED ED 

I also know that I've worked with more than 140 international artists that created artworks based on a XX century woman that was also a character that appeared in Italian maestro Crepax graphic stories and that was his wife. 

 These artists always trusted in myself in a team concept regarding this or other exhibitions/projects that I've created with their help all over the world.

Cover of two books by Italian director Federico Fellini and Italian maestro Milo Manara about a movie that Fellini never directed and another magnificent drawing by Italian director Federico Fellini.

Life's hard when you clearly know that while you're making an interview to Italian Maestro Milo Manara based on his works and his collaboration with Italian director Federico Fellini, somebody will try to tell you that this was useful or will not be, based on their profitable or non profitable values.

French cover of "L'excavation" by Swedish maestro Max Andersson published by L'ASSOCIATION, a magnificent book by Chilean writer Alejandro Jodorowski and a XX century woman artwork given to me by French maestro Walter Minus

I'm also aware that if I do an interview to Chilean writer Alejandro Jodorowski, the same thing that I've mentioned in the paragraph before in this same post will happen.

 I remember asking in May 2018 to Swedish artist Max Andersson and later Gary Groth a simple question such as this:

"Why don't you publish your complete short stories at Fantagraphics and later I can help you on a Portuguese book edition of it?"

 Max loved the idea and Fantagraphics will publish his complete short stories in English, so my main goal while communicating with Max or Gary is accomplished, a book collection with Max Andersson's complete short stories will be compiled and worldwide distributed in the upcoming future through American Fantagraphics publishing company.

 I'm sure that French maestro Walter Minus offered me one original based on the XX century woman that I was working on with more than 100 artists and that know he's also working with Crepax's family that backstabbed me because of my work done on their father's collection with my own ideas and also because of royalties on this same worldwide collection that started in my mind in my hometown.

Writing about my dreams while seeing dreams of my friend and extraordinary Finnish artist Terhi Ekebom turning into artworks.

I know that I trust in the artskills by my friend and extraordinary Finnish artist Terhi Ekebom that puts her heart, soul and dreams in her work and we can actually see above a little girl lost in a labyrinth.

Cover of a Fellini/Manara book about a movie that Fellini never directed, a little girl leaving a labyrinth by my friend and Extraordinary Finnish artist Terhi Ekebom and a  magnificent drawing by Italian director Federico Fellini.

In 1966 Italian director Federico Fellini wanted to direct a movie named "Journey to G. Mastorna" and that he couldn't direct it or frame it in his mind even with a script because of these facts: "Italian writer Vincenzo Mollica calls “Mastorna” the most famous unmade film in Italian cinema. Such were the accidents and deaths associated with it that he came to think of it as jinxed: food poisoning after he had met Italian writer Dino Buzzati, the death of Bernhard and then of the cinematographer Gianni Di Venanzo, almost Fellini himself in April 1967,when he was misdiagnosed and became sick enough to prompt a telegram from, of all people, the Pope. He shrouded the film in mystery partly to keep open the option of making it., later he did wrote a script that was turned into a book with help by Italian maestro Milo Manara (the picture of the book above proves this as a known fact). 

Trying to link this fact to the previous artwork shown in another picture by my friend and extraordinary Finnish Artist Terhi Ekebom, one can see in the picture above a little girl exiting the labyrinth where she was before creating movement with two drawings in a static art form, while in the same picture, one can see a Fellini's drawing for his 1986 movie "Ginger and Fred" with actress Giulietta Masina (that was Felinni's wife) and actor Marcelo Mastroianni.

Gathering tributes by international artists about a XX century woman while thinking on a conceptual arts magazine also with international artists. 

Knowing that I continue to work in a mega project based on a XX century woman created by Italian maestro Crepax and that's being published and worldwide distributed by American book publisher Fantagraphics, I clearly know that I'm still working in it, to try to see international artists that paid tribute to this character with their excellent artwork s (that I treasure a lot) and that are being published in limited booklets (being a simple example Italian artist , Rolando Cicatelli's tribute to this character and that can be seen above along a tribute to English singer/actor/performer David Bowie and with pics by Italian magazine Frigidaire that was an awesome anthology provided with texts and artworks by excellent comic book artists such as Liberatore, Pazienza, Hugo Pratt among many others) 

Working on complex books such as the newly released "savages" by Croatian artist and maestro Danijel Zezelj - 01

 Clearly knowing who I am, I know that I've helped my friend and awesome Croatian artist Danijel Zezelj on his latest book "The savage detectives" because of an idea by him to publish a book about world storytellers in history in their original native tongue in published books.

 I'm proud of this book, because I was able to find well known quotes by some of my favourite writers ever such as 

Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa in Portuguese, 

Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector in Portuguese

Argentine writer Julio Cortazar in Spanish

Chilean writer Nicanor Parra in Spanish 

Spanish writer Cervantes in Spanish

Argentine writer José Luis Borges in Spanish

Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño in Spanish 

Czech writer Franz Kafka in German 

Swiss writer Robert Walser in German 

Romanian writer Herta Muller in German 

Austrian writer Ranier Maria Rilke in German and that were illustrated by Danijel Zezelj and translated to English and Croatian in this masterpiece that's being worldwide distributed and that everybody should buy it, because Danijel is one of the best contemporary artists that has excellent ideas and knows how to publish books in an awesome format in hardback editions with excellent quality paper.

 I know that I've also made an interview to Danijel in this same blogue, that I've written an intro to "Luna Park" for the portuguese edition of this masterpiece that was written by American writer Kevin Baker with artworks by Danijel (that was loosely based on memories of a man) and that Danijel also collaborated in several exhibitions that I've curated all over the world with help by several international artists in the past two years.

Working on complex books such as newly released "savages" by Croatian artist and maestro Danijel Zezelj - 02

Trying to be "Lost in a Nordic dream" with help by Nordic artists

I know that I've gathered a PDF with short stories by Swedish artists Lars Erik Sjunesson, Max Andersson, Knut Larsson, Clara Bessijelle Johansson, Nicolas Krizan, Finnish Artist Terhi Ekebom, Danish Artist Henrik Kim Rehr and Polish artist Bartosz Jekiel in order to be "Lost in a Nordic dream", trying to publish this anthology either at American publishing book company Fantagraphics or at French publishing book company L'association.

 In the above picture, I've decided to print a funny artwork by Swedish artist Lars Erik Sjunesson and the French book edition of Max Andersson's masterpiece "The Excavation" that is the best book edition of this magnificent graphic novel with an astonishing book cover and that dwells in dreams or nightmares that Max Andersson had in the past years.

 I know that I've made an interview to both these artists in previous posts in this same blogue that were honest, had lots of information about their artworks as some sort of friendly conversation in a coffeeshop.

Trying to have inspiration for my work with help by international artists based on an awesome TV Series named "Peaky Blinders"

Clearly knowing that one writes about what he observes in life or watches in a screen, I've tried to seek inspiration for this narrative in Peaky Blinders TV Series with monologues or dialogues by actors or actresses because I truly believe that life's more than simple images or words that sometimes make no sense within my mind, heart or soul.

 Below are some examples of what life always was in society for simple people.

Polly character monologue in Peaky Blinders: "It's in our gypsy blood,we live somewhere between life and death waiting to move on and in the end we accept it. We shake hands with devils and we walk past them."

Frances character dialogue in Peaky Blinders:"Mr Shelby, you're meant to be resting"

Tommy Shelby character dialogue in Peaky Blinders:"I've learned something Frances. There's no rest for me in this world. Perhaps in the next" 

Writing about 21st century woman/character/musician Svetlana Zombierella Nagaeva with help by Italian artist Rolando Cicatelli and Japanese artist John Kurokawa

Knowing also that it's hard to understand a XXI century real woman such as my friend and magnificent musician/character Zombierella, I do try to write what's my personal vision of herself either with printed pictures of her or original artworks based on her like the above examples of Italian artist Rolando Cicatelli or Japanese artist John Kurokawa among many others that can be read or seen in previous posts with artworks by international artists and narratives created by myself in this same blogue.

 While I was finishing this sort of narrative, I was thinking on a magnificient Russian movie named "Stalker" that had a complex narrative based on time, zones and living beings (loosely adapted from the book "Roadside Picnic" by Russian writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky and that was originally published in 1971), being later worldwide screened in 1979 by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky with a fascinating monologue/dialogue below of a writer that is lost in a zone in this delightful movie.

Writer: "One more experiment.

Experiments, facts, truth of higher instance.
There is no such thinhs as facts.
Expecially here.
All this is someone's idiotic invention.
Don't you feel it ?
But you, of course, must find out whose invention it is.
and why.
What good can your knowledge do ? 
Who is going to get guilty conscience because of it? Me ?
I have got no conscience.
I just got nerves.
Some bastards would criticize me, I get wounded.
Another would laud me, I get wounded again.
I would put my heart and soul in it, the gobble up both my heart and soul.
I wouuld relieve my soul of filth, they gobble it up too.
They are all so literate.
They all got sensory deficiency.
and they are all swarming around, journalists, editors, critics, some endless broads.
and they all demand: more. more !!!
What hell of a writer I am if I hate writing ?
If it is constant torment for me, a painful, shameful occupation, sort of squeezing out a hemorrhiods.
I used to think that someone would  get better because of my books.
No, nobody needs me !
In two days after I die they will start gobbling up someone else.
I wanted to change them, but it is they who have changed me.
Making me in their own image.
The future used to be just a continuation of the present, with all the changes looming far behind the horizon.
Now the future and the present are one.
Are they ready for it ?!
They don't want to know anything !
All they know is how to gobble !

Stalker: Gush ! How lucky you are ! My goodness, now .. You are going to live a hundred years !
Writer: Yes. But why not forever ? Like the eternal Jew."

Special thanks to all international artists, publishers, writers, musicians and common people who believe in my work that's worldwide distributed in simple books in several languages or in ideas loosely spread in this same blogue.

Manuel