Saudade, a word often called untranslatable, is tangible in Lisbon. As the city is reshaped by tourism, modernization, and gentrification, it carries its memory alongside its losses: traditions fade, communities are displaced. In this project, photographs are reworked with thread and stickers, becoming scars and stitches on the skin of the city’s identity. I explore what it means to belong to a place caught between permanence and disappearance, and what it means to embody saudade itself.
