Young Dude Eleven on the Summer of Seventeen

Out of the Blue

Old Boots Metaphor

Beto Borja, September 26th 1997

Twenty years have gone by since that morning in Cali where I saw my younger brother alive for the last time. Twenty years which have been enough to fill another lifetime and we must continue to fulfil the mandate of our tasks: to work, to love, to live. And to remember those we carry in our blood, to honour their memory.
My baby brother remains -as it must be in photographs- distant, frozen in time, the downcast gaze fixed forever on this portrait. His spirit still resides in my soul.

Mónika Herrán, Cali 2000 (Yellow Portrait)

Old Faversham Road

Lisboa, 2002