Pep Carrió, 1963. Palma de Mallorca.

Profession: Pep Carrió

Pep Carrió’s profession consists of getting up in the mornings—in that, it closely resembles most professions. Once the daily tasks of the early hours are done, and upon reaching a conventional space we usually call a studio, working as Pep Carrió involves dedicating several hours to using texts and images to create graphic designs that give shape to one of the various everyday printed or audiovisual communication objects: books, posters, covers, cards, banners, boxes, videos, websites, etc. These objects serve others who do not work as Pep Carrió for their own purposes, which are generally to give notice. We could say that Pep Carrió’s profession consists, to a large extent, of helping those who request it to announce the future, even the present, or the past.

So far, the basic information.

When working as Pep Carrió, one must also set aside some hours of the week for discrete, almost hidden tasks, which become public knowledge only on rare occasions. We will list a few without intending to exhaust the inventory: dragging stones, carrying wood from ruins and shipwrecks, acquiring trinkets, drawing, rummaging through garbage, cutting out old publications, photographing, collecting objects abandoned by others, drawing, sawing, nailing, editing, drilling, piercing, tying, drawing, transferring, waxing, editing, polishing, photographing, filing, packaging, knotting, drawing. The execution of any of these tasks does not have predefined settings, which is why it can take place anywhere in the world, though it is natural for them to be undertaken in Madrid.

Lastly, working as Pep Carrió requires going to bed when night falls, perhaps a bit later—in that, it does not differ much from other professions either. In reality, the only difference between Pep Carrió and the rest of humanity is that his profession is named after him.

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