Versanti Magazine

Illustrations created for issue 0 of Versanti Magazine

Oxygen is to life as life is to bread.

Text by Greta Contardo

"There are passions that flare up like fires until destiny snuffs them out with a paw, but even in these cases, there remain warm embers ready to burn again as soon as they find oxygen." The Japanese Lover - Isabelle Allende.

Writes the most free and up-to-date encyclopedia in the world: "bound to other elements, it is the most common chemical element in the Earth's crust, representing about 47% of its mass and also enters the molecule of water" which incidentally represents the remaining 53%. Read: oxygen is everywhere. A fundamental molecule for our life and for a good part of the compatriots who inhabit the planet with us. It is everywhere, multifaceted, and represents existence... the analogy with the symbol of life par excellence, which is no coincidence, is immediate: we eat it.

I was also tasked with drawing portraits of the founders of the magazine and any guests.