WHAT IT IS

Stravolana is a serial story, with a new post every Wednesday. There are three characters in search of a guiding thread, a meaning for life. They understand that the thread and the meaning are life itself, the journey that is made in it.

Trying to turn the ordinary - their lives - into the extraordinary, they embark on a glorious balloon ship named Stravolana, and begin to travel in that which is omnipresent in our lives and about which we know almost nothing; what presides over us, what holds us in its hands throughout our existence and, in the end, sets us free: time.

Thus, their minds and hearts also navigate and make the journey an art. Because there is nothing more human than art. Well, there is also science. And religion. And crimes, and ... oh, never mind!

They are always looking for guidance for the next route: compass, map, rose of the winds, whatever. The trip itself shows the next destination, which may even be to return home.

New routes, other paths, which are not necessarily journeys only to cities and countries, can be within themselves, traversing their own selves.

On any trip, inside or outside, you can face a storm, plunge into a nebula, find a bright sky or an unnerving lull. That's life. And so is Stravolana!

Stravolana is nice, but bad. It's bad, but it's nice. Like everything in life. It's an invitation to travel together. Let's go?

WHO MAKES IT

André Gil was born in Recife, Brazil, worked in failed banks, studied history and archive conservation, worked at an archaeological site, was restorer of paper, draws since he was a child and, of course, enjoys traveling.