In this particular series entitled, Dreams and Shadows I talk about my personal life, how dramatic sometimes it turned – moments of evasive fear, nostalgia, uncertainty, yet with a deemed light surfacing from the depth of the tunnel
“Saudade (A Portuguese and Galician word that has no direct translation into English) was once described as “the love that remains” after someone is gone. Saudade is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, well-being, which now triggers the senses and makes one live again.
Our nights were odd, as the electricity (one provided by a local public generator) went off after 8pm or 9pm, our light for the rest of the night was provided by the moon, the days that it came to into play. Some days it was intense and other days it was weak and sometimes off season…
I enjoy abstraction, which features quite prominently in my work; is this perhaps my mask? I don’t know…the abstraction seems just to happen!
