An audio-visual work captured on the banks of the river, close to Sao Pedro da Sul, Porto region, Portugal in July 2026. Volovan SON Residency. Guitarist lead: Giuseppe Lopopolo with an E-Bow and Juliana España Keller on the Osmose CE. Voice-over: Leticia Alejos.

The text below has been composed by Juliana España Keller and in memory of the Portugese Poet and Writer, Fernando Passua, with an excerpt from his book: "The Book of Disquiet" (Portuguese: Livro do Desassossego: Composto por Bernardo Soares, ajudante de guarda-livros na cidade de Lisboa) (1888–1935).                                  

Published posthumously, The Book of Disquiet is a fragmentary lifetime project, left unedited by the author, who introduced it as a "factless autobiography". The publication was credited to Bernardo Soares, one of the author's alternate writing names, which he called a semi-heteronym, and had a preface attributed to Fernando Pessoa, another alternate writing name.

"Black water where

I quiet my restless mind—

Stones hold ancient tales

The river's sounding becomes a language all its own, older than words.

In its dark surface, I see not my reflection, but the stillness beneath the current—the place where true listening begins.

According to the Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa, a man should not be able to see his own face

There is nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes.

Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face.

And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic.

He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself.

The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart"