atrito (portuguese to friction) is a book-object that investigates the relationship of skateboarding with the city of São Paulo.
In this relationship, the architecture plays an essential role: it is the subject of an unusual relationship, allowing skaters to recognize locations of the city by angles and textures not so obvious to the majority population. There is also a material that makes it possible the friction of the skateboard with these places: the wax, which suffers the action of time and end up getting soaked on those surfaces, leaving marks, which are signs that spot is used by skateboarders.
The book also proposes a game: first, closed photographs of these marks shows a different way of observing the city. After, the same spots, with a more open view, but without a verbal response.
atrito uses as cover and back cover, the edges of a skateboard deck, joined by a hinge, putting in contact the materiality of the object (wood + griptape) with photographs of classic skate spots of the town. The title was applied in the wood with Letraset.
