«Father’s Day, Sunday, June 16, 2019, I woke up in someone else’s house. An apartment in one of the residential neighborhoods in downtown Buenos Aires. We got up very early and from the window, we looked at dark clouds and the winter storm of the Southern Hemisphere. Nothing more discouraging than the thought of returning home.

When we left the apartment, we heard, in the hallway, the gasoline-powered generator used during power outages, something rare in the winter. As we took the elevator down, the building’s doorman told us, ‘There’s no power anywhere in the country, not even in Chile, nor in Brazil, no one knows why, but they surely sent us a bomb!'» (Sousa, n.d.)

«Starting from a large-scale power outage, the author explores the history and implications of ‘graphite bombs,’ which disrupt the power supply and communications. Sousa intertwines this theme with the history of drawing and writing, from the Greek myth of the first drawing on a wall to the invention of the graphite pencil by Nicolas-Jacques Conté. The author reflects on the relationship between art and war, highlighting how everyday objects like the pencil have military origins and how artists have explored the dematerialization of art in a world saturated with information.»