segunda-feira, 28 de julho de 2014

COMMON PATHS


     We spent the most part of our lives away. Memories, we have millions; the real memories from childhood and a part of our teen years. And all the others, equally real, even more real, that came and come in an endless spiral from the past and the future. Each second is the meeting of all times.
     Then, each one followed their own path in life and life has so many paths. Each path contains millions of others; the ones we trek and the ones we imagine and dream. Side by side we followed by so many of those million paths. The miles between us or the time away never counted much. Time doesn’t exist in the paths of the mind and soul. It’s just a stream that takes us naturally and imperceptibly along the journey. Where does the journey lead? That no one can know for sure. We can only know where the heart inhabits and the soul expands as an eternal landscape. The rest is common geography, routines and episodes in the endless story.
     What makes the world more than an agglomerate of matter, shapes and colours are our inner perceptions, the magical process of building, rebuilding, painting and sculpting the world with the landscapes, the visions, the thoughts and the feelings that we carry inside. The entire world is a huge canvas, a large mirror waiting for life, the fire of Prometheus that only our minds and souls can create, share, seed and spread.
     That was exactly what we did in our childhoods and we still do, I in my simple life and you among the stars. The simple things were magical because they were more than what they were; they were the work of our imagination and dreams. Nothing changed inside. Nothing changes inside, only expands, adding more and more life, reality and dreams to life itself.
     Two weeks ago I went to Porto again. The days were splendorous, mainly by the sea. You don’t live there anymore but I met you there just the same. My streets are your streets and vice versa. We keep walking along the same paths, in the old streets of our beloved city or in the light highways of the sky.
     Not much changed in the real old city either. I didn’t take many pictures this time. I spent the most part of the time just contemplating, feeling, breathing with the soul. And you were everywhere, at Foz, at the Crystal Palace Gardens, at Ribeira, crossing the bridge to Gaia, watching the reflections of the night lights in the river… and asking with the happiest smile in your face “Did you ever see most beautiful scenery in your life? Did you ever breathe with your soul more deeply than here?”… Well, my brother, you know the answer is “no” and “yes”… Just like people —no one can substitute no one — the places can’t be substituted. This is the most beautiful and amazing place in the world when we breathe each atom of reality and dreams within our souls… We’ll keep breathing with and within our souls. This place and all the others will never lose their unique magic… Blow me a whisper from the stars and tell me that you agree. I’m hearing your smiling whisper, I’m feeling you breathing in this inner place where we are together now and ever… And thus we follow this common path and the million paths within it…

     The pictures below are from the album Reflections & Shadows III. A few are the combination of drawing and photography. (Deep contemplation).

Inner perception I, photography by São Ludovino. 

 Inner perception II, photography by São Ludovino.

 The light within, photography by São Ludovino.

Togetherness, photography by São Ludovino. 

The link remains I, photography by São Ludovino. 

 The link remains II, photography by São Ludovino.

 Persistent windows I, photography by São Ludovino.

 Breathing with the soul I, photography by São Ludovino.

 Breathing with the soul II, photography by São Ludovino.

 The bath I, photography by São Ludovino.

 Tangible vision I, photography by São Ludovino.

 Tangible vision II, photography by São Ludovino.

 Eternal renewal I, photography by São Ludovino.

Eternal renewal II, photography by São Ludovino. 

 Invisible light I, photography by São Ludovino.

Invisible light II, photography by São Ludovino. 

Deep contemplation - Butterfly, photography and drawing by São Ludovino. 

 Deep contemplation - Tranquility, photography and drawing by São Ludovino.

 Deep contemplation - Spirit & matter, photography and drawing by São Ludovino.

 Drinking alone, photography by São Ludovino.

 Earthly galaxy II, photography by São Ludovino.

Multiple time I, photography by São Ludovino. 

Painted mirror I, photography by São Ludovino. 

 Painted mirror III, photography by São Ludovino.

 Piano staircase I, photography by São Ludovino.

Water caligraphy, photography by São Ludovino. 

Trail of the will-bow II, photography by São Ludovino.

 Will-bow sailing I, photography by São Ludovino.

 Will-bow sailing II, photography by São Ludovino.

 Will-bow sailing III, photography by São Ludovino.

Will-bow sailing IV, photography by São Ludovino. 

 Ocean without frontiers II, photography by São Ludovino.

 Mens agitat molem, photography by São Ludovino.

 Full Moon birthday, photography by São Ludovino.

 Keeps shining, photography by São Ludovino.

 Your streets are my streets I - Porto, Portugal, photography by São Ludovino.

Your streets are my streets II - Porto, Portugal, photography by São Ludovino. 

 Peaceful walls I, photography by São Ludovino.

I pass and I stay as the Universe, Fernando Pessoa, photography by São Ludovino.


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