Bruno Freitas De Oliveira
Bruno Freitas De Oliveira| L’unica tinta, l’unica forma| C-type
My Vagabond Heart | 10 x 10 inches
‘I grasp at each second, trying to suck it dry: nothing happens which I do not seize, which I do not fix forever in myself, nothing, neither the fugitive tenderness of those lovely eyes, nor the noises of the street, nor the false dawn of early morning: and even so the minute passes and I do not hold it back, I like to see it pass.’ Jean Paul Sartre in Nausea
My Vagabond Heart is a visual diary chronicling lost intimate instances in order to erase or abduct time. It presents the yearning before, amid and after these jointly lived minutes for all the closeness and the affection as if daydreaming or even better in a hypnagogic [1] state. Loosening my ego boundaries, empathising without repression or censorship to resolve an emotional Tetris where all these feelings are like fractions falling into completeness.
[1] Hypnagogia is a deeply relaxed state of consciousness of heightened suggestibility, illogic and fluid association of ideas that occurs prior to falling asleep. It’s characterized by hypnagogic hallucinations or imagery, a slideshow of highly condensed, discontinuous and bizarre imagery of faces, figures, animals, print and writing. The imagery has often an auditory component but also can be gustatory, olfactory, thermal and tactile. These visual, auditory, and physical stimuli, have been known to cultivate intuition, inspiration, and offer creative insight.