MEANTIME

In between - a poetic tale written and illustrated in times of a pandemic - it is an authorial book that crosses visual and textual poetry. We will support the artistic creation of new authors in the Portuguese artistic panorama!

Not long ago, my attachment to poetry and illustration gorwn up not only due to a creative need, but also as an emergency to publish illustrated stories. And why not the poems too?

Thanks to a continuous exercise of introspection, the prevalence of a personal approach, not created, but spurred on during confinement; and to the incentives of those who have been following the evolution of my work, especially from colleagues and friends, the idea of disseminating and editing these poems has gained strength!

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In between, it is a poetic text that is part of a larger self-publishing project. All support for this project will therefore serve to "buy time" for a new creation that will follow. This "fanzine" is a small poem that foresees the imprisonment in which we find ourselves in this unexpected trip. The fugacity of our lives, their insignificant scale within the natural cosmos, and the political thinking that still prevails tend to perpetuate a nefarious and abusive relationship between human beings and other living beings, the Planet and its ecosystems. It is a very small manifesto that jumps in defense of a future that must be lived now, where dreams and reality cohabit harmoniously, where reality can itself be a dream. Nature is us!

What each one reads in this book is up to each one to interpret. The drawings and texts are responsible for inhabiting the pages, accommodated between their expression and texture, the core that moves freely around the spine of the book, without spine, cooked by hand, open to what is to come, sketches to be completed.

Risography is an ecological printing technique that uses soy-based inks. There are twelve printed pages and dance in one and two colors in a delicate treatment with each pass through the machine.

On the one hand, I edited this book bearing part of the costs, and on the other, I had the institutional support of the Viana do Castelo City Council. What I intend above all else is for this work to use itself, to allow me to disseminate my work throughout the country, to help me continue this desire to be able to produce a next work!

In this crowdfunding campaign all the little "in´s" will be "many betweens" for me. - and for the Portuguese literary creation I hope :-)

I am confident that each of these books will be read with love and care by each one of you!

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Book Details

Dimensions: 18x25cm

12 pages printed in two colors, in risography

170gr paper cover and interior

About the author

Hi! I'm Eva Evita to avoid confusion! :)

I am an architect as passionate about houses as I am about illustrated books. Until today, no illustrations or text have complained about my cozy compartments and tight feet!

Master's degree in Illustration and Animation at IPCA, Barcelos, in January of this year-no, I have been creating illustrations in the most diverse artistic areas. In addition to taking victorious cups home, full of joy, I teach and periodically hold illustration workshops with kids and adults. I was distinguished with some relevant prizes within the area, among which the Novos Talentos FNAC 2020 award, 1st International Porcelain Illustration Award Vista Alegre (2019), and the Young Illustrator Câmara de Amarante BIISA award (2017). There are at the moment going on some collective exhibitions taking place in Shanghai (China), Valencia (Spain) and Maia- UIVO (Portugal). With no fixed direction, I look through illustration to represent my imaginary world, based on personal observation of what surrounds me. Trying not only to fill my chest with short breath but the open eyes of all who listen to my poems !! I am an author together with illustrator Diogo Bessa of the Tusse Tusse Edições Ambulantes project, and I also carry out personal projects and many others for very demanding clients!

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Budget and due dates

I made an edition of 100 copies of the book, but if there are more than 100 supporters wanting to buy the book, I can make a second edition!

CALENDAR

December 19th to 26th:

1. disclose, disclose, disclose !!!
2. preparation of rewards (if it reaches 50% of the goal)

(Anyone who wants can follow drawings and other parts of the process on my instagram !)

December 26th to January 5th:

1. gather supporters to the final goal!
2. end of the campaign at PPL (with + 100% of the goal, I hope!)

until January 15th:

1. production of rewards
2. prepare everything to offer supporters
3. sending the Book + rewards to supporters (to those who cannot deliver by hand) via CTT :)

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BUDGET

• shipments by CTT (single regular mail) = € 2.60 each book or Totebag (€ 260 per 100 copies)
• shipping by CTT (single regular mail) = € 3.50 each illustration (€ 103 for 30 copies)
• totebag ~ € 4.80 / each
• frame production accessories ~ 75 €
• shipping envelopes and packaging ~ € 1.00 (€ 100 for every 100 copies)
• support for artistic production and organization time
• support for dissemination and structure (with the production of some flyers, emails and network platforms)
• the rest of the money will be invested in future productions
• PPL commissions ** (7.5% + VAT) = € 46.13

* PPL commissions: These are the fees that I will have to pay in order to carry out this campaign at PPL. Of the amount you receive, 5% + VAT is for the PPL platform itself and 2.5% + VAT will be to cover the payment partners' commissions (PayPal, ATM References, etc.)

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