AVE
Art · Experience · Essence. Not everything belongs in a repository.
AVE is where I put the other stuff: art, thoughts, dance, music, lived experiences and occasional existential debugging. The name stands for Arte, Vivência, Essência (Art, Experience, Essence), and it opens the way it should: with the name written in graffiti letters, fat outline and all, like something you’d find on a wall downtown.
The texts come out as numbered chapters, “written on the phone, between one late night and the next, while life happens”, in Portuguese and English. Each one lands in one of three categories: Art for expression, Experiences for real experiences and Essence for ideas, people and fragments.
The design comes straight from the street: black and white photos, chunky cards with a white outline and an offset shadow like stickers on a wall, condensed poster type and a colored tag for each category. There’s even a REC timestamp in the corner, because some habits from fsociety never leave.
And it all closes in a loop: art comes from what you live, what you live shapes who you are, and who you are goes back into the art.
Highlights:
- 🎨 Graffiti lettering and a street poster look
- 📖 Texts published as numbered chapters, 019 and counting
- 🏷️ Three categories: Art, Experiences and Essence
- 🌗 Dark and light modes
- 🌎 In Portuguese and English, written between one late night and the next
