With these two words, Lídia Vives’s grandfather would place a newspaper on her lap and hand her a pen. That small gesture sparked an obsession that never left her: to intervene, to draw, to leave a mark.

The Signature is a series of self-portraits, each of them intervened with hand-drawn graphics that tell the story of her life – from childhood to adulthood – through the intimate, almost compulsive act of marking the image.

Using pen and memory, Lídia transforms her own body into a narrative surface, filled with personal references, emotions, and subtle irony. Each piece represents a moment in time, a wound, or a reflection, becoming a raw, visual diary.

This series is a tribute to the need to be seen, to nostalgia, and to the traces we leave – and those that are left on us – throughout life.