A misty landscape with a dark light comes back again and again to the memory of the spectator, who is unable to avoid it. A bird plummets from the sky. It dies, but its eyes are still alive, perjuring in their glassy gaze a secret fear that will conceal itself in the folds of the future.

There is a story about a secret, dark and distant childhood; an history about a story about being sons of the fathers (or not being), from which echoes reverberate with lucid insistence in half-spoken words and images that will have to be forever completed. There is a shadow play. A stain on memory that Aguilera and Cociña have captured in a micro story told in verses and illustrated in miniatures along black tree-like growths. And there, on the cover, lies a nameless bird. Nobody says: «I was».

Claudio Aguilera (Concepción, Chile, 1976)

Journalist and cultural manager. Founding partner of PLOP! Gallery and curator specialized in illustration. Director of Letra Capital Ediciones and author of the books 9 kilómetros [9 kilometers]; Ilustración a la chilena [Chileanstyle Illustration] and Antología visual del libro ilustrado en Chile [Visual Anthology of the Illustrated Book in Chile].
He has organized and participated in various seminars on graphic heritage, illustration, publishing history and reading promotion, and has curated more than 30 exhibitions on the history of books and illustrated books, illustration and comic strips. In 2014 he was a Jury member for the Ibero- American Illustration Catalog.

Vicente Cociña (Concepción, Chile, 1982)

Graduated in Visual Arts with mention in Engraving at Finis Terrae University. He was a professor in the drawing area and also in the art theory and history area at Finis Terrae University until 2013. He has published comics, poetry, illustration and city drawing books. He has made various individual and collective exhibitions, and participated in fairs in Chile and abroad. In 2016 thanks to the work done on the book Alameda de ida y vuelta, he won the chilean Amster- Coré Award, and the Municipal Literature Award of Santiago in the publishing category. In 2018 he won the publishing prize awarded by the Chilean Book Chamber for his work Alameda de ida yvuelta 2. He currently lives in Santiago and is a professor in the Illustration career at the Design School of the ARCOS Professional Institute.