Dia de Estreia (Premiere)

These were a series of illustrations for yet another article published in the 281st edition of Trip Magazine. Dia De Estreia (Opening Day) featured interviews with a range of different people with varied experiences, narrating their “first times” on whatever was impactful and meaningful to them. The stories go to “first time I’ve done wing-suit flying” to “first time I had sex after a sex-change operation”. It’s an eclectic team of people, but all of the stories have something in common - the adrenaline, the excitement and the on-spot adapting that they are all in one way or the other are forced to undergo - and the learning.

You can read the online article in Portuguese here

The illustrations are four-color risograph prints on cartridge paper, and quite appropriately, it was my first time using this technique.