Manga or
Pessoa? This is the difficult choice at Évora’s Fonte de Letras, where artists’
books sit alongside quality fiction and non-fiction, coffee ready at hand. The
stock appears seemingly random in its display but on closer inspection is carefully
ordered, with furniture and book displays performing a carefully choreographed
dance. The ceiling, with its electrical tape artwork by local designer and
illustrator Bernardo Bagulho, perfectly
mirrors the ordered chaos below.
This is a
sketcher’s paradise. I tried to highlight
the particular charm of Fonte
de Letras using some discreet collage (the store’s advertising leaflet
featuring Pessoa and a clipping from a Portuguese-language Manga catalogue) balanced
by a limited colour palette. Pessoa reaches into his fluid brain for
inspiration, his hand resting on the manuscript, while Tokyo Ghoul dangles his
smartphone and touches his temple in slightly perplexed distraction.
With such
a complex scene, I started with a thumbnail in ‘Mr Blumke’ (my pocket notebook)
to work out how much I could realistically include, and then once I had some
main lines down, attacked the sketchbook with the two selected collage pieces using
PVA glue (cola branca). The beauty of
urban collage is the vitality of decision-making and its resulting design,
where sketched lines dance with the printed fragments at almost improvised
speed.
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