The illusion brings together thirty texts by Antonio Doñate written between 2002 and 2022. They were mostly published in media as diverse as personal or collective blogs, supplements cultural publications, magazines from alternative spaces or books by various authors, and review some of the aesthetic, educational and informational changes in contemporary societies. Pop music, graphic design, contemporary art, new policies, conscious motherhood, educational complexities… are containers in which to pour one’s own opinions and panoramic views. An authentic user manual of the vital, aesthetic and ideological changes that have occurred in the last twenty years.

In dialogue with these texts, several analog photographs by Carmen Gray are included that describe everyday aspects of people and places with the intensity of unexpected events or unrepeatable events.