We are happy to open Missbehave Diary with a snapshot that brings me lots of good memories. I took this pic at a cafe during my second meeting with Simona Rota, last September in Madrid. It was our first live work session and we had  books and notebooks all over the table. We interchanged impressions while enjoying a delicious fruit juice. It was in this meeting that Simona proposed to assemblage Ostalgia and Big Exit in a single book. It was the key point to set the edition into motion!

That afternoon I had the fortune of enjoying an impressive art print of the Ostalgia serie. Simona kept her beautiful photographies inside a wondrous box which had an elusive color. I couldn´t say if the tone was grey, blue or greenish: it just resisted to be captured, vague and loose as shadows. I loved the curious name that Simona gave to this sort of tones: she calls them "windy colours". I think this name somehow recalls ambivalence and lack of definition as powerful ways to shake our imagination. This is something that has a lot to do with Simona's work, and  it is being an important component of the book not by chance. 

I really would like to encourage you to help us come this editorial project true. Overall I would like to animate anyone to get and give Missbehave. In fact I'd want everybody to enjoy this book, because it's truly something I wouldn´t let skip! I feel so fortunate of being envolved in this edition.