I love to read. I grew up in a house with a great number of books. I love the way we get carried on in words, the feeling of a new character beginning to “born” in our minds and how they don't look anything like the way words describe them. I love this translation from the word’s world to the image’s world that is in our minds.
One of the writers that can bring my creativity to its most is José Saramago. I was always a great enthusiastic of his work, but when I moved to portugal, everything has changed. I began to understand much better what he meant in his books, and not only because of the meanings of the words, but because what it means to grow up and live here. What are the colours, the odours and how people look at each other. His books became alive to me.
These two pieces celebrate a new era of José Saramago’s work in my life and they belong to one of my favourite books of all times: Baltasar & Blimunda.
These two pieces celebrate a new era of José Saramago’s work in my life and they belong to one of my favourite books of all times: Baltasar & Blimunda.
Blimunda & The Wills
Blimunda is a ordinary girl with a not so ordinary power. She can see "what is inside of people's bodies and, sometimes, what is inside of the Earth too" as long as she is fasting. In the book's plot, she is the one responsible for gather more than 2 thousand "wills" from people she met along the way. These "wills" together with amber and ether would make a bird shaped machine fly. It was the dream project of her friend and priest, Bartolomeu de Gusmão and she have devoted her life to it.
She might resemble a poor fragile girl with nothing more than captivating eyes, but she is in truth one of the most powerful and fascinating Saramago's female characters.
Seven Suns & Seven Moons
Baltasar "Seven Suns" and Blimunda "Seven Moons" have a strong and truthful relationship. It was love at first sight, or something like that. They are lovers, partners, friends and confidents. But it is less cheesy than it sounds. They are the opposite of each other (He is called Seven Suns, because he can only see what is in the light and she is named Seven Moons because she can also see what is in the darkness), therefore they complement each other. They are almost like the Sun and the Moon themselves, the necessary opposition. It is a love that makes the world, their world, go on, just like our every day Sun and our every night Moon.
