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Limitamo-nos a desejar, estamos sempre prisioneiros de um desejo qualquer; e, por vezes, até vamos atrás dele, perseguimo-lo perseverantemente; mas chegamos lá e não é nada daquilo, encontramos apenas uma decepção. Ou até é aquilo que queríamos, que procurávamos; mas, no fundo, é irrelevante. Porque começamos logo a desejar outra coisa qualquer.

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We limit ourselves to desire; we are always held captive by one desire or another; and sometimes we even go after it, pursuing it relentlessly; but when we reach it , it is nothing like what we imagined, we find only disappointment. Or perhaps it is precisely what we wanted, what we were looking for; yet, deep down, it proves to be irrelevant. Because almost immediately we begin to desire something else.

Paulo Kellerman

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A tosquia do peixe

Rede social: onde o peixe é capturado sem perceber que está a ser capturado porque sempre achou que pertencer a um cardume o protegia. Glu glu glu. O peixe devia aprender com a ovelha: fazer parte do rebanho é apenas uma garantia de que será tosquiada; várias vezes. Méééé. 

Shearing the Fish

Social network: where the fish is caught without realizing it is being caught, because it always believed that belonging to a school would protect it. Glu glu glu. The fish should learn from the sheep: being part of the flock is merely a guarantee that it will be shorn — repeatedly. Baaaa.

Paulo Kellerman

Pessoas como casas

People as houses

E se fossem os sentimentos a escolherem as pessoas, tal como as pessoas escolhem as casas onde querem viver?
E se as pessoas fossem, afinal, simples casas onde os sentimentos podem habitar?

What if feelings chose people, just as people choose the houses they want to live in?
What if people were, after all, simply houses where feelings could dwell?

Paulo Kellerman

Portable Link, projeto com Paulo Kellerman. Um diálogo entre literatura e fotografia, entre imagem e palavra.

Caminha

Caminha na minha direcção, mas não
me vê; agita a mão, mexe os dedos como
se tentasse agarrar o ar. Apesar do seu
comportamento peculiar, a expressão é
pacífica, a postura é tranquila.

Pergunto: Tentas pegar o ar com a mão?

Sorri. Responde: Não, tento agarrar o
amor.

Passa por mim e afasta-se, conduzido
pelo seu sorriso; e assim desapareço da
sua vida. Nem memória serei.

Vejo como se afasta, vejo como
desaparece; e enquanto vejo, pergunto:
será que já não existe amor em mim?

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She walks in my direction, but does not see me; she agitates her hand, moves her fingers as if trying to grab the air. In spite of her peculiar behaviour, her expression is pacific, her posture is calm.

I ask: Are you trying to catch the air with your hand?

She smiles. And answers me back: No, I am trying to grab love.

She passes by and walks away, lead by her smile; and then I disappear from her life. I will not be even a memory.

I see how she walks away, I see how she disappears; and as I watch her, I ask myself: Is there no longer love in me?

photographs by Ana Gilbert
text by Paulo Kellerman

[in Geografias Corporais, Alter Edições, 2022]

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Apenas

O tempo é apenas uma sequência de acasos. A eternidade é apenas uma sequência de acasos. A existência é apenas uma sequência de acasos. Tu és apenas uma sequência de acasos.

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Time is just a sequence of coincidences. Eternity is just a sequence of coincidences. Existence is just a sequence of coincidences. You are just a sequence of coincidences.

Text: Paulo Kellerman

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Humanity: the ability to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes. If we choose not to do so, we are not human. We are something else, but not human. Something else. Something. 

Searching for meaning in life is like asking a mountain to explain what a kiss is.

Texts | Paulo Kellerman

Photos | Ana Gilbert

PORTABLE LINK , a dialogue between photography and literature

XXXVI


It is this body that holds all that I am.

An envelope that contains me,
Defines me,
Limits me.

And everything I am is born in it.
But is everything that is born in my body mine?

Universes of desires that arise and grow
And multiply,
Fleeting or perhaps eternal,
Powerful and immense in their power
Of disconcerting.

Do they belong to me?

Desires that are dreams
Without flesh
Or material density
Or geometric contour
Or palpability.

Perhaps dreams are a concrete reality,
As concrete as the most consistent
Of realities.
Concrete like a tree or a bridge or a clothesline or a fire
Or a body.m
But a reality lacking the senses.

Concrete,
But without dimension or volume.
Without physical outline or measurability,
Just intention and design.
Like when you say you want to give me a hug
Or a kiss,
But you do not really give me a hug
Or a kiss.

My body produces universes of desires,
Immense in their power
Of disconcerting.

But useless.

What good are dreams
If you cannot touch them?

in And when the questions are over? REIMAGINED

Paulo Kellerman (text) & Ana Gilbert (photo)