Para o coração,
a vida é simples
"In the early days of the covid-19 pandemic — a kind of revisitation of the 14th century and the bubonic plague, which decimated between a third and half of the Portuguese population — we found ourselves without a less bad solution (there is no good one). If, on the one hand, we created a social scheme a long time ago where we avoid physical confrontation with the dead of others, and condition the presence of our own to the shortest possible period, on the other hand, we have completely lost access to a dignified farewell. as in death we are forced to endure without seeing.There is no alternative.
For those who stay, it's up to them to stay close to the ground, with the mourning to be done and the pain distended for a lifetime; For those who leave, I recall again the words of Karl Ove Knausgård: “For the heart, life is simple: beat while you can. Then stop”.
Illustration for a chronicle by Cláudia Lucas Chéu, published on the website of the literary journal Rascunho.
To the heart, life is simple.
A little about the creative process of this illustration.
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