children, 23/08/2017
I am at the elementary school. It is break time, the school yard is in a middle light because of the cloudy and rainy day. i play with the children of bunny in the lair. I feel weightless, jumping easily in the circles made by chalk. i barely touch one foot on the ground and easily can leap with the other foot. I feel like I could fly gracefully, in a ballet dance. I am even capable of spinning in the air as I leap. I do all this with ability, it seems that my body works faster than my mind. I’m surprised with myself. I feel great. I guess that everybody likes me and admires me because of my skills.
I get out of the play and see I girl – I don’t know who she is, but I know that she is a student – walking on her hands. I envy her. I feel bad because I can’t do what she is doing. An incontrollable desire to sleep takes over me. I lean my back on the wall and try to sleep. The school bells rings hurting my ears. I call my students to go to the classroom, but I don’t have any idea of what I will teach them. Everybody continues in the yard. No one has listened to me. The children watch with enthusiasm the rehearsal of the grown-up students. There are a lot of wedding dressers hung on all over the yard. Everything is lovely. The hems of the wedding dresses touch ours heads. Brides and grooms walk by the yard ramp. The children love it and I let them watch it. I enjoy everything.
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photos by Patrick Pimentel
(2017).
Projeto de Iniciação Científica - ESCH, São Paulo.