General Sadness

 

A photo documentation of an ongoing project consisting of a series of interventions carried out in various natural locations, using clay as the primary material. Each intervention is accompanied by a poem.   I   Portugal 2024

 

 

Today is my birthday

 

Today is my birthday

It is my second time here

Yesterday I thought I would never be able to do something

Here where the nature is too perfect

I will never be able to fight against it

And will lose

 

Today I said I would just go and walk there

After three hours of walking freed from any thought

I stood on one rock and just started

 

I am done

I think I made many cakes

Maybe for all the people that I want to be with and celebrate this day

Perhaps it is just a gift to this landscape

I can’t know

 

I am happy to be alone today

I feel relieved

I cried

I went to the ocean, dried myself and walked away

 

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It is midday

I need to go back to return my bike and meet Inês