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To make Love in pandemic times by Bernardo Guerra Machado
The confinement hit Portugal around March 2020. Following the modernist tendencies of seeking to digitalize artistic expression, I thought of creating a blog named “Fazer Amor em tempos de pandemia” (To make Love in pandemic times). Together with its story, this piece represents as well an open call for all the readers who wish to join the project!
The rules are simple: to share whatever origi-
nal work you have produced in isolation, which should be connected with Love. Obviously, it doesn’t need to be the romantic variant of the term. It can be the affection for the friends you miss; the nostalgia about a place you are not able to visit; the family you are looking forward to see again… and so on, and so forth. There was no problem with offer and demand, as the whole World is bursting with emotions to express; and lacking Human contact at the same time! Little by little, many interesting posts started popping in. So far, there were contributions in 5 different languages. Some were home-made, while others consisted in tales of travellers trapped in distant continents – as in the case of my dear friend Luca Di Eusanio, who wrote the following verses:
The blog’s cover photograph.
© Bernardo Guerra Machado
The desolate image of the lifeless avenue is a silent strike on the heart which remembers and nostalgically dreams with ash-like mosaics having dancing legs and audacious bicycles It is the joy of the high pasture convinced that at least the giants will let him try to reach the sky
La imagen desoladora de la avenida sin vivir es un silencioso golpe al corazón que recuerda Una Avenida (An Avenue) © Luca Di Eusanio y nostálgico sueña con mosaicos cenicientos Of course it all started within my close-friendship network; nonetheless, the situation got hapde piernas danzantes y atrevidas bicicletas pily out of control – with anonymous participations and people who are completely unknown to Es la alegría del pasto alto me joining in! Among all these pixels, something was made more and more clear: that we are not convencido que por fin made to be still! And, with its pros and cons: we los gigantes dejarán que el intente alcanzar el cielo simply need each other.
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