"An
identity game"
Love is
a smooth word.
Life is
a hard puzzle to solve.
History
is past, present and future together.
I've
been thinking about where's the love in our lives.
One can love a person but can lose her form,
face or body in a split second while memories remains intact.
To write about love for cats as pets is to
write about how they look, how they eat, how they stare at us, how they move,
how they sleep, how they dream and all these aspects of cats or kitties will be
in our hearts forever like a book that's always open.
I was at Porto searching for me while trying
to find my kitty Ilvie, since my love for her will always be deeper than for a
common person.
That's why I decided to recite a love letter
to her with or without wind, with or without food, with or without people in
Boavista's roundabout.
My kitty Ilvie is a warrior and always will be
by my side as long as I live, since I'm not amnesiac and my identity card is
the city where I was born and the life that I've lived with her with lots of
love.
Writing love letters isn't easy, but being my
kitty Ilvie, my muse and source of inspiration, the words started to build
themselves almost magically in a mere paper like they were written with her
little paws in my heart with blood as ink.
So, who am I?
Who is Ilvie?
Where's Porto?
Where're my memories?
Are they in a simple box gathered digitally in
a PC, in a bunch of papers or in my heart?
Why pure evil exist in this world?
Why can't people understand that the love that
a human being has for his/her pet can be bigger than the one that he/she shares
life with a common man or woman.
Evil is in women or men's hearts.
My love will always be with my kitties in my
heart, mind and soul.
So, why do people want to murder this love and
register my pets like they were an object due to a betrayal while also trying
to kill me physically?
My kitty Ilvie was always by my side and never
(not even for a second) betrayed my heart or soul and neither one, nor the
other will burn because of her.
Song by
American band God Is An Astronaut was chosen due to the band's name and to his
title because in life "all is violent, all is bright".
Quote by
soccer coach José Mourinho was chosen because I truly believe in that statement
made by him.
Song by
British band My Bloody Valentine was chosen because of the band name since I
was working in Valentina comic book character collection, stories and tributes
with international artists and also because of its title "to here knows
when", since I really don't know where or when I'll see my kittie Ilvie
and I've seen them live in Porto after waiting for more than 15 years for a
concert from them and after it, this song was in my mind for months and months,
while living my life with Ilvie.
Thanks
for the support of artists from countries such as:
Argentina:
Alejandra Sanguinetti, Cam Rappetti, Carlos Dearmas, Colorada Majox,
Fer Calvi, Fernando Beltran, Mister ED, Quique Alcatena, Patricia
Breccia, Rodrigo Lujan, Santiago CARUSO.
Brazil: Alex
Korolkovas, Brao, Carlos Ferreira, Eder, Tainan Rocha.
Croatia:
Danijel Zezelj.
Greece: Con
Chrisoulis.
Finland:
Jussi Salolainen.
Italy: Guido
Crepax.
Portugal:
Derradé, Osvaldo Medina, Paulo Pinto.
Poland: Joanna
Joka Karpowicz, Magdalena Minko, Nikodem Cabala.
South
Korea: Sid Jung.
Spain: Daniel
Esteve, Dulce Escribano, Eduardo Alvarado Sanchez-Cortes, Javier
Olivares, Joaquin Aldeguer, José Luís Ágreda, Kosta, Maria
M. Coluccelli, Miguel Almagro, Pau Masip, Pedro Espinosa,
Pedro Espinosa, Pedro Rodriguez, Sandra Hernandez, Ruben
Pellejero, Toni Benages Gallard.
Sweden: Emil
Gunnar Máxen, Nicolas Krizan.
U.K: James
Harvey.
U.S.A: Bill
Koeb, Brian Biggs, George Pratt.
Special
thanks to Argentine artist Mr ED for his artwork of a poster for the exhibition
based in a photo of my kitty Ilvie and for the design of the text that is at
the exhibition, to Daniel Castro for providing a space to it at his amazing
coffee shop, to all his employees who serve me coffee all days and to my kitty Ilvie for always being my muse and source of inspiration.
Da mui nobre, sempre leal e invicta
cidade do Porto Manuel Espírito Santo
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