fantástico!
fantástico! (2017)
Softcover // 44 pages // 9 b/w and 26 color images // 190x280mm
The word Saudade exists only in the portuguese language. It describes a specific form of Weltschmerz...
Saudade is a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one cares for and/or loves. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never be had again. It is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events that once brought excitement, pleasure, and well-being, which now trigger the senses and make one experience the pain of separation from those joyous sensations. However it acknowledges that to long for the past would detract from the excitement you feel towards the future. Saudade describes both happy and sad at the same time, which is most closely translated to the English saying ‘bitter sweet’.
(Wikipedia:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudade)
...fantástico! is about my very personal feeling of saudade.