capicua, papinho: gaudí gluing shards

Ac­cord­ing to Capicua, their brand new track Gaudí was born out of a bad day.

We all have those days. We are tired, frus­trat­ed, dis­ap­point­ed, those days when we’ve had enough and noth­ing we do seems worth it.

 

As the lyrics say, we are tired of hu­mil­i­a­tions, ad­vice, sug­ges­tions, bro­ken hearts, good in­ten­tions – tired of di­et­ing, tired of our job, our boss­es, tired of re­la­tion­ships, of the rou­tine, small talk …

We all feel this, on top of the the pres­sure to adapt and keep nav­i­gat­ing through the world. But that feel­ing of giv­ing up, it can re­al­ly bring one down.

 

And on that bad day, she said,

“Eu vou co­lar ess­es caquin­hos e faz­er um Gaudí.”

– which rough­ly trans­lates as:

“I’m go­ing to glue those lit­tle shards and cre­ate a Gaudí.”

From that … this beau­ti­ful, strong and mean­ing­ful song came to be.

 

And per­son­al­ly, I couldn’t re­late to this more: My very best work hap­pens from the worst pain, the most un­com­fort­able days, where I tru­ly feel the worst about my­self.

The song lyrics em­bod­ies this in per­fec­tion.

This is what hap­pens when we per­se­vere through the rough­est times.

 

We tru­ly are mag­nif­i­cent crea­tures that when faced with the worst ver­sions of our­selves, we fuck­ing take it all in, ac­cept the im­per­fec­tions, our pain, and dis­tress and trans­form it into glo­ry.

We are in­spir­ing mas­ter­pieces.

We are strik­ing, no­ble and glo­ri­ous beasts!

 

There’s many peo­ple in­volved in this project that I didn’t have the chance to meet, but I want to thank the peo­ple that I had the plea­sure to work with while shoot­ing. The treat­ed me like a Queen. And those won­der­ful crea­tures are: An­dré Ten­tu­gal, Joana Cordeiro and Tomás Valle.

Annnnnd … none of this would have been pos­si­ble if Clara Não didn’t men­tion my em­broi­dery art to Capicua and An­dré. A heart­felt thank you to that bad ass Queen!

 

And if you think I look un­com­fort­able danc­ing here …

You’re ab­solute­ly right. lol.

I don’t prac­tice this modal­i­ty at all, ex­cept when I’m home alone.

The peo­ple who know me in real life, they know I’m shy as hell.

 

What can I say?

We all wear our own masks, don’t we?

But it does feel good as hell when we just get to be our own selves.

Bad dance moves or not.

 

—fili pa­p­in­ho

Flom­mist Fili Pa­p­in­ho is an em­broi­dery artist liv­ing the #lux­u­ri­ousem­broi­derylife in Por­to, Por­tu­gal. She is also own­er of gallery and lux­u­ri­ous em­broi­dery life shop qual­quer ate­lier. Copy­right © 2020 Fili Pa­p­in­ho.

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