Vera Esperança

Design - Illustration & Animation Design

doing nothing

Being a storyteller complements my work as an illustrator, as it allows me to tell stories in a creative, illustrated way. I draw inspiration from my daily life, my own experiences and others (because I love hearing a good story).
During my long summers, I realised it was the little things that made them special. All my summers spent in Portugal, my home country, with the duration of three months. Three months that my parents thought were excessive: “such a long vacation!”, “so much time doing nothing!”. But precisely because there are so many moments of doing nothing, there is extra time to think. I am sitting in my backyard, sunbathing and thinking, I am at the beach and thinking, I begin to observe everything and everyone around me.
I like to see the fan spinning on a hot day, to have the house dark with the blinds down, to hear everything muffled underwater, to enjoy warm nights where all you can hear are crickets and the sound of the refrigerator, to cross bridges and highways at the same time as so many other people, all heading for their summer vacations, family lunches and dinners where conversations and stories about the place where we live are repeated, because we all live a few streets away from each other. There is beauty in mundane moments, which seem to be so quickly forgotten.
A story with no plot twists, just (snippets of) life happening and overlapping with memories. A need to freeze the most mundane moments in time and a long summer that won’t last forever.

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