Years ago my parents decided to leave Brazil. I was born in a land that should have welcomed me as a native, but where I felt her distance instead. I was born in a land where I was relegated to the position of the perpetual tourist, that never let me understand why I was linked to it, or how to have an active interaction with. That saudade sentiment, of something lost – that perhaps was never owned – so nuanced and inexplicable, often revealed itself while I tried to connect to my everyday life there.
In an attempt to dialogue with a land that I never felt belonging to, trying to shape the involved relation with my routine, I collected the fragments of visual experience, familiar or not, that I felt could contribute to the forming of a genuine perception of reality, no longer distant and idealized, but present and in continuous change
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