Bagagem

Bagagge

Gosto de imaginar que o tempo é um autocarro em andamento. O tempo avança, tal como um autocarro avança; e nós lá dentro. Um autocarro que tem janelas que nos permitem olhar para além do tempo; e fixar. (O tempo transporta-nos: somos passageiros do tempo.) O olhar é o mecanismo de que dispomos para trazer para o interior do autocarro – do tempo – aquilo que consideramos importante.

Aquilo que vemos fica guardado no nosso interior, integrando-se em nós; e nós fazemos parte do tempo: porque estamos no interior do autocarro. (Transportamos o tempo: o tempo é nosso passageiro.) O tempo leva-nos consigo, a nós e a todos os pedaços de vida que recolhemos quando olhamos; à vida que vamos acumulando, compondo a nossa bagagem. Espantos. Ternuras. Prazeres. Enigmas. Partidas. Esperas. 

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I like to imagine that time is a moving bus. Time moves forward, just as a bus moves forward—with us inside. A bus with windows that let us look beyond time and hold on to what we see. (Time carries us: we are passengers of time.) Our gaze is the mechanism we have to bring into the bus—into time—what we deem important.

What we see is stored within us, becoming part of who we are; and we are part of time, for we are inside the bus. (We carry time: time is our passenger.) Time takes us along, together with all the fragments of life we gather as we look; with the life we accumulate, composing our baggage. Wonders. Tenderness. Pleasures. Enigmas. Departures. Waiting.

Texto | Text: Paulo Kellerman

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Conseguirei?

If I stopped looking at myself in the mirror, would I be able to forget my face? Would I be able to forget how I am, what I am, who I am? Would I be able to forget myself?

Será que se deixar de me olhar ao espelho conseguirei esquecer o meu rosto? Conseguirei esquecer como sou, o que sou, quem sou? Conseguirei esquecer-me?

Texto| text: Paulo Kellerman

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a certain way

There is a certain way of breathing in which the body enters into perfect harmony with the universe; a way in which they breathe together. It’s something you practice. Or that you imagine.

Text by Paulo Kellerman

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REIMAGINED

Do you feel what you see
Or do you just look?

And when the questions are over? REIMAGINED is the rewriting and reimagining by Ana Gilbert of the book of poems by Paulo Kellerman E quando acabarem as perguntas?, published in 2022.

42 poems by Paulo Kellerman
44 photographs by Ana Gilbert

4 poems (voice and original text in Portuguese) by Paulo Kellerman + Soundscapes by POROS (via QR Code)

Design | Licínio Florêncio
Print | Arte Ampliada
Handmade binding | Eliana Yukawa | Yume Ateliê & Design