Fortunate Islands
2021Analog photography
3 photos
Fortunate island #1
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Fortunate island #3
What voice comes with the sound of the waves
That is not the voice of the sea?
It’s the voice of someone who speaks to us,
But that, if we listen, hushes,
For listening has occurred.
And only if, half asleep,
Without knowing we hear, we hear,
She tells us the hope,
To which, as a child who
Sleeps, sleeping we smile.
They are fortunate islands,
They are lands without whereabouts,
Where the Kinglives waiting.
But,if we awake,
The voice hushes, and there is only the sea.
(Fernando Pessoa, As ilhas afortunadas, 1934, Mensagem)