Orion - Orion, the legendary hunter stung by a scorpion, evokes in Greek mythology the viewer's claim to grasp the totality of reality, at the risk of losing his life, but it is also a constellation, here metaphorically designating all the obsessions and fantasies of the Lisbon photographer.
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The sensation of the existent is very beautiful, but we must not remain, the artist seems to tell us, in the immediate relationship relating to a form of exteriority or projection, we must open our chakras, our seven doors of perception, be the other.
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To be the bouquet of flowers, to be the petal, the water, the vase.
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To be the woman who comes towards us at the end of the corridor, brunette and desirable.
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To be the hands of the infant, the button of the blouse, the leonine hair.
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We reach out our arms, we grope for a little comfort, we burn together.
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Fabio Miguel Roque knows that the world is an illusion, and that one must go through inner awakening and the body to feel its true substance.
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Sexual love must be an offering, a baptism for two, a delicate wildness.
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The blind dog is perhaps more lucid than we, who do not communicate by deceptive speech, but directly by cry.
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A cloud shivers, a horse laughs, and the skull of the fractured skeleton wonders what it is doing there, in a book seeking to establish links between the microcosm and the macrocosm, between the terrestrial and the celestial, between the masculine and the feminine.
