Bairro Estrela d'Ouro

Lisbon, August 2013

Stripes

Lisbon, April 2013

Nature, April 2013

The art of losing...

Lisbon, May 2013

One Art

"The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

- Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster."

- Elizabeth Bishop -

"Aimer, ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'outre, c'est regarder ensemble dans la même direction."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -

Lisbon, May 2013

Navio Triste

Lisbon, May 2013

Church of São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon, May 2013

"Eis-me

Tendo-me despido de todos os meus mantos

Tendo-me separado de adivinhos mágicos e deuses

Para ficar sozinha ante o silêncio

Ante o silêncio e o esplendor da tua face

Mas tu és de todos os ausentes o ausente

Nem o teu ombro me apoia nem a tua mão me toca

O meu coração desce as escadas do tempo em que não moras

E o teu encontro

São planícies e planícies de silêncio

Escura é a noite

Escura e transparente

Mas o teu rosto está para além do tempo opaco

E eu não habito os jardins do teu silêncio

Porque tu és de todos os ausentes o ausente"

- Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, in Livro Sexto - 

Road to the blue

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill - 

Lisbon, May 2013

Alone.

Lisbon, May 2013

"There is nothing to save, now all is lost,

but a tiny core of stillness in the heart

like the eye of a violet."

- D. H. Lawrence -

Lisbon, April 2013

Lisbon, May 2013

"Ah! sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun (...)"

- William  Blake - 

Rings' quartet

Lisbon, April 2013

Would you join me?

Lisbon, May 2013