My first drawing derived from a handbook called prayers for peace. I used a blue cardboard to represent the colors used by Mary mother of Jesus,  and drew her using only a white and a golden pen. The white was used to make the outlines of the drawing, while the gold was used to paint all the gold on her costume, crown and accessories. My intention with this was to bring attention to the representation of wealth used by the Catholic church. I also intended to add more figures to the drawing, overlapping her image with other characters; but the feedback I got from the teacher and friends was that the drawing worked well the way it was, so maybe I will only add some words to it later (or not, cause my grandma liked the drawing, and maybe I'll give it to her. Something I can't do if she really understands what I meant with the complemento of the words). It took me almost all day to make it, so I didn't finish the task on time, but I tried to finish the others faster, using quicker ways to represent my work. 

My second drawing was inspired in a poster from a church I found in my town. The poster said:" Whichever the moment or situation, get a call from God in your life", and it included a number with the saying: call or send a message trough whatsApp. I reproduced the poster almost exactly like it was originally because the poster seems clearly fake, although it isn't (including the number). My main challenge was related to the lettering in this one. The paints I tried to use didn't have enough pigment in them and using a paint brush wasn't a good idea for me, cause the letters were too small and the acabamento didn't look good; so I later changed to a white posca, but the pigment wasn't enough again, for it to look like a print, and trying to cover the spots with less color made the paper tear. So maybe, next time I could glue the letters on, or carve out the letters using a scalpel.  (Which I considered doing in the first place, but I didn't have enough time). 

The third drawing was aimed to the holy spirit image, that is represented by a white dove. I was gonna put it in a red background that would fade and merge with the color of the paper, but again the paint was a problem and it had no pigment AT ALL, so to make it more red in the center, I left some ink with water in the space that was supposed to be the holy spirit and left it to dry while I was making the second drawing. In the end when I came back, it had formed the shape of a heart, and I loved it. So I ended up putting the dove underneath this part, so we could see the heart. I always hear from people how the error or accident can become the best thing about a work ( like the hand shot from the "red" curta, or the voices in "Sally and joe" which were all originally unintentional but were my favorite things from the video project), but usually when I make an error it just looks bad and pisses me off. I hope this happens more often.

The first talk was about galleries collaboration system and was lectured by Vanessa Carlos and Stefan Bechoam. They take part in a project called condo which calls out galleries to host other galleries. All to reach different people in different places. For them, the key words are collaboration and people. The most interesting thing to me was understanding how galleries work, and see that a padronization isn’t necessary; as in everything else in the world. Also, I had never thought of the “contract factor” between artists and galleries. According to them, the contract is there to protect the artist; Giving them a porcentage on their work in all future sales, for exemple. I am still a lot skeptical about it, but it made me think on what could be the processes of protecting my works.

Second lecture was about art websites. The first one presented to us was the aarea project, a platform created to exhibit specific artwork created to be seen online. There is a nice touch to it, the fact that the only thing on display when you access the website is the work of the artist; and it stays on for on month, just like a gallery exhibition. 

So far, the works displayed were all created by artists who didn’t attempt to crate this kind of work before. It made me want to accept this challenge, or even curate this kind of website, which would not be easy at all, because as the creators,I don’t know anything about programming, and would depend on other progressionals to keep a website up; but a website is cheaper and much more practical then owning a gallery. 

The second website is the artload and I had already used it before, since Michael mentioned it as reference. When this happened I was actually a bit frustrated since most of the artists I looked up weren’t an option of choice. In general, I have already seen websites like this but the twist is that they perform interviews with the mentioned names uploaded in video. Including the beautiful Marina Abramovic.

Another highlight of the day for me was after we came back to uni and Monique presented her work and her path as a self publisher. This is something that really interest me, as I want to work induvidually, without the need to be employed by anyone, and also have a big connection with sesc in Sorocaba. Her ideas are clever and practical. And made me have hope that things can work out. I admire her even more as a woman and visual artist.