Catanduva, Brazil, 1944

“Just be a city, any city. It doesn't matter if it's big, medium or small. A few buildings are enough, a few streets, one or another square not necessarily wooded. And to top it off, people walking through that maze. Ready! A scenario is complete that arouses immense curiosity and an uncontrollable desire to observe and check in detail what is going on there.

However, if you are facing a huge city, whose map is a tangle of thousands of poorly drawn streets, populated by millions of inhabitants where, in addition to people, the city itself moves incessantly, a city that has the inevitable problems of the great metropolises, some seemingly insoluble, others in the form of solidly established conflicts, I repeat, if you are in front of a city like this, in front of São Paulo, for example, so much better … Don't get me wrong. After all, it would be a huge ingratitude not to revere it and fail to recognize its virtues, especially its enormous welcoming arms that make it a city for everyone. ”

Cristiano Mascaro, 2004