Llorones Profesionales.

It is important to destigmatize the crying. To cry is the peak, the heyday of decompression. It is the sigh, the relieve of tension. It is the process and to process the existence. Crying is the clearance of the airways and the anguish. Crying is healing.



Illustration
Graphic Design
2020


What a complicated year. To live in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic was insalubrious. Political, ambiental, sanitary crisis, democracy dismantle and the ultra-right twist shook my sanity. All this explosion on social isolation. My 2021's calendar theme couldn't have been different. I've painted 12 portraits of people crying, made with gouache on paper (15x18cm).