In the book In Portugal of 1912, A. F. G. Bell writes:
“The famous saudade of the Portuguese is a vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist, for something other than the present, a turning towards the past or towards the future; not an active discontent or poignant sadness but an indolent dreaming wistfulness.”
»E QUANDO ME CHAMA EU NUNCA FALTO« stands for a complicated feelings and ideas from my own existence in the Portuguese environment. Surreal and intense. These photographs embody the temporal wane of objects, images, and memory.
Moments of tension, revelry, sadness, despair and then some.
My very subconscious reflection on the conflicted, paradoxical nostalgia we tend to place on ourselves — nostalgia woven of an openness of longing, as the infinite possibilities of life stretch ahead, but also of many misplaced longings for the obscurities and disorientations.