"El Dicurso" Comic a collaboration  Carlos Fajardo y MSA V space
Channel: MSA eXperimental
Date: 2022-02-06

"El Dicurso" Comic a collaboration Carlos Fajardo y MSA V space.
MSA has many stories about Carlos Fajardo, one of Puerto Rico’s greatest Artist/ Profesor of art who lived and worked in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Carlos Fajardo was an art Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus (RUM).

This Comic was conceived in the year 2000 in one of our meetings in MSA studio in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.

We were talking about the island (Puerto Rico) and its problems and virtues, then Carlos went on a rant like he only would do, creating a story as he talked. I got the camera out and started to photograph documenting his expressions in this discourse. The next day he left and that evening he sent the text, I started to draw the images and put together the website. At that time I was using software that incorporated sound and animation depending on what you clicked and it would also trigger action on rollovers. The website was up for a few years. But the company that created the software and hosted the website stop working.

MSA was able to rescue the images and layout of The Comic and redone it in a way that archived the work. During all this time we have tried to archive many of Carlos's writings.

MSA is deeply fortunate to have met such an Artist/Professor Carlos Fajardo and we will always be very grateful for his friendship and generosity, we will never forget him.

This one is for you dearest friend, thank you for your presence in this world and for being part of our memory which makes us what we are.