I've missed my family more than I ever had the chance to enjoy them, and that has marked me forever. It has shaped how I see the world: the ephemeral nature of everything, the improvisation that guides me each day.
The intensity with which some of them left this world reflects just how incredible they were. There isn't a single day when a small part of my aunt or my grandmother doesn't live on in me: in the way I look at life, in how they loved animals, in those stories full of gestures and sound effects that they told with such life.
Everything that drives me to pursue this project comes from them. They never told me anything was unreachable. I design for them and for myself. I design thinking about those hours I spent searching for little treasures around the house, even if they were broken. I would organize them, keep them, use them as therapy. I imagined how they must have felt wearing them. I never thought I’d imagine like that again, but now I do. I’m looking ahead, not back.
This is a hopeful song. A reminder that the smallest moments are the greatest, and that our days don't need to be perfect, nor does everything around us. It's about savoring each sip, without demanding too much of ourselves. Just enjoying it. Life is wonderful, and even more so are the people who fill it.
