Introduction

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Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquietude:

Clear things console me, and sunlit things console me. To see life passing by under a blue sky makes up for a lot. I forget myself indefinitely, forgetting more than I could remember. My weightless and translucent heart is pervaded by the sufficiency of things, and the act of looking fulfills me tenderly. I have never been more than a bodiless gaze, stripped of all soul save for a vague air that passed by and saw.

The work presented here is the outcome of a search which can be conveniently described as two-directional: backward, through the maze of my memory, and forward, through the perplexity of the visual around us. Returning to my childhood memories, I have tried to establish which images had attracted my attention and ever since subliminally informed my visual language. These discoveries were then used in the process of analysing, understanding and purifying my photographic statements, which in turn enabled me to go even deeper into the well of my memory.