He is an ambitious
boy. When ever there is a test in school there would be nothing else keeping
him busy than that. Thats the way his parents educated him. Maths can be very
hard indeed, and that he has spent his first 5 years in Italy, where his
parents come from, doesn´t make it easier to struggle along with the French
language.
Emilio lives in
Paris. He likes the city for his multiculturality especially as there are
millions of tourists showing up every year.
Emilio has a strict
time table. After school he usually has lunch at the traditional Italian
restaurant his parents are running. Pizza, Pasta, Salad, he loves everything.
But no time to slack off, heaps of homework is waiting. Not forgetting his
weekly piano lessons on monday, dancing on tuesday, acting in the Mini-theater
group wednesdays and playing soccer every thursday and saturday at the Paris SG
juniors.
But he does
excellent. He manages to be well educated with an enormously good final exam,
beeing able to begin his law studies at the age of 16. Expectedly he doesn´t
fail at any of his study years, finishing them with fantastic marks which gives
him the oppotunity to start working in Paris best lawyer´s office, the
„Carbinet d´avocat d´egalité“.
At the Age of 25 he meets his
future wife Céline, a very attractive french lady with give birth to his two
lovely kids, half French, half Italian. Until the global financial crisis in
2008 the family Polverini is having a wonderful life. Céline does childcare and
housekeeping, Emilio is going to work to financially care for his family.
But since the financial
crisis he is forced to take a second job, where he needed to rush every tuesday
to friday night after spending the whole day in the law office. He was lucky
the Metro runs every 2 minutes in Paris, the city of hurry.
The shortest way to
from office to the Metro tracks trough the park close to the Jeu De Paume
museum. When Emilio takes the first step out of his office he noticed, that
although it is mid march the sun is already suddenly shining very bright. As
this five minute walk to the Metro is the only time possibly beeing in the sun
and he realized how brilliant it is to be outside, he decided to take one train
later to work, and have a little sit down at one of these public chairs standing
in the park. During his rest he got clear about this beeing the first time in
life not going to work and instead doing something fun. He enjoys himself in
the most rompy way and after he lets go one Metro after the other he eventually
thinks:
„Fuck that, I gonna
take that day off and finally chill.“
assignment 1:
illustrate a picture you have in mind of Paris.
(illustration most below, 70cm x 100cm, graphite on paper)
assignment 2:
write a story which could be behind it.
assignment 3:
illustrate that story in four images
(illustrations in between, 29cm x 21cm, edding on paper)