Silêncio is a series of self-portraits that emerged at a moment of great discomfort. I didn’t want to be seen, I didn’t want to see myself. But I needed to create the photographs because they were the final project for a workshop. It was winter in Berlin, January 2021. I spent a lot of time in silence inside my house, I spent a lot of time in silence in other people’s houses keeping their cats company. I spent a lot of time walking in silence, I didn’t even listen to music. I even cried in silence. The silence grew longer and longer and caused more and more discomfort. One day I went for a walk in the snow and all that silence suddenly wasn’t so heavy anymore. It was part of the silence of nature on the surroundings. I was part of the nature around me. For a few hours everything connected and made sense, my silence and the silence of the trees.