[Lucia speaking]

This is an original poem from another book that is called O. The book is called O. And this poem is just zeros and O. And I work a lot with concrete poetry and experimental poetry, which are in a way, like, scores. So something like this, I would perform it in a normal setting, and I could understand, but repetitions and things like that. But this poem comes from a quote by Frida Kahlo, actually, because I worked on, on on a show, a museum show on her diary some years ago. And they asked me to interpret her as a poet more than a as a as a writer.

So I really delve into her diaries and try to understand more, like, where she comes from, her poetic voice. And there was a part that said something like, you know, the famous painting of Frida that it's dos Fridas, two Fridas, and they're holding their hands. It comes from this dream that she had that when she was young, she would like, go into a mirror and blow, like, and draw, draw the O. And she would say that she could go from the O to the center of the Earth, and there she would find her other Frida. And then she would come back from the center of the Earth back into the world. So this O, the letter, language in itself as a portal where you can, you know, cross and so I was inspired by, by that poem and that quote. You know, the, the whole long poem really starts from just that quote. It's not like Frida Kahlo or anything, but it's, like, that starting point. And it's really about Oh as a passage, language as a passage, as a meeting point, things like that.