December 15, 2013 

The wonder that is accompanied with gratitude, it is always a surprise. Sometimes we imagine ourselves with our loved ones, neighbors or people in the fantasy stories and we look forward to live a life more intense. How many times have we dreamed of reliving the exploits of legendary heroes and historical figures to fit our desires, and how many times we, are happy, we foreshadowed a future yet to come, and perhaps impossible to achieve. And from everything we want originality tapping into what looks interesting, trusting to an imaginary audience. And then when it actually happens, the wonder is accompanied immediately with desired conceived and never confessed.

For a long time the works of Samanta Lai gravitated towards my feelings for both a playful vision is for the power to bring forth a true poetic sense. Two of his works became an integral part of two of my poems for the book “Mutual rebirths.”

Following do with unexpected, really not imagined, Samanta sent me a gift in his original work.

The emotion and surprise yet, invite everyone to a shared happiness for those who have interest, because the picture depicts an actress that I admire him for his commitment to civil and his interpretive skills. Vanessa Redgrave has always been an idol of mine, because through her work as an actress, she has worked as policy and to claim to full citizenship for all, playing movies with themes of civil and political rights. In particular I remember a film about imprisonment in concentration camps with her marked by blue and gray colors gradually tending to black, where with difficulty trying to survive her companions, she maintains until the end his own humanity. This tired face veiled by white and light gray tones and anemic, she looks a lunar landscape formed by bluish iron that it is composed of a firmament hard and unforgiving.

Despite everything, his face worn down by poverty and suffering in pain received, says the desire to look compassionate toward humanity of everyone. And the frown turns into a smile.

And then: thank you,  Samanta.

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