An ongoing project.
Saudade — a word often called untranslatable — becomes tangible in Lisbon. The city carries memory and loss while being reshaped by tourism, modernization, and gentrification. Traditions fade, communities are displaced, and yet fragments of authenticity remain. In this project, photographs are reworked with threads, stickers, and tactile marks, turning them into scars and stitches that echo Lisbon’s patchwork identity. Between past and future, preservation and erasure, I explore the question of belonging — and embody saudade, the beauty and ache of a city suspended between permanence and disappearance.
