Nas Entrelinhas (Between the Lines) is an interview feature about handwriting, objects with stories, and everything that doesn't fit into an obvious answer. A space for improbable lists, unwritten letters, and what insists on defying a blank page.
In this edition, I invite Mariana Sabido, a photographer. Mariana takes portraits, but above all, she captures the passage of time. Not only in the families she has followed for years, but in how she notices, in the light, yes, but also in what moves us before we even know it moves us. She sees what escapes, what almost didn't happen, what is about to disappear. There is something in her of the intimate rawness of Sally Mann, crossed by the world of someone who has lived in London and Brazil and therefore knows that the planet is immense and, at the same time, absurdly fragile.
She plans trips, reads a lot, sees everything. She lives restlessly, as one should live when dazzled by beauty.
She is the friend with whom I share this obsession with beauty and with whom I daydream about slower days. We talk about the countryside like an old love (and old loves themselves), about what moves us and what stays with us. We have a silent pact: to continue to inspire each other. I hope to always have her by my side, exchanging images, poems, books, films. Our small great treasures.
Here we talked about letters she would have liked to receive, letters we write, papers that are not thrown away, and, of course, her stationery choices.
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To whom would you write a letter on paper?
To my grandmother. Every night she would lie in bed and write letters and letters to everyone. To my daughters, to whom I write continuously. I have boxes of postcards and letters saved for them to open one day. And also to my godfather. For years we wrote to each other via letter.
What inspires you to create?
Cinema, watching a lot of cinema. Looking at children's books. Writing at night. Listening to other people tell their stories.
A book that impacted you.
"How Long Does a Day Last" - Susana Moreira Marques. I read it when I had a tiny baby, and it resonated with me. Now I'm reading "The Correspondent."
An artist who inspires you.
Sally Mann, for obvious reasons. I greatly admire her work. Wim Wenders for the slowness of his cinema.
An object that lives on your desk
Paper always. I need to write so I don't forget. A wooden cup that belonged to my Uncle B; when he died, my cousin gave it to me exactly as it was, with pencils, pens, an eraser, etc.
What is always in your stationery drawer?
Blue pens. Scissors.
What's on your Papelaria Moderna wish list?
Letter paper.
What stationery item would you like to exist – that no longer exists, or never existed?
Oh... I never thought about that!
A piece of paper you can never throw away.
Photographs. Letters.
A note from my grandmother just before she died. Where she gives me her blessing, among other things.
A huge number of emails I printed, which my father sent me when I lived in Brazil. He never called me, but almost every week he would send me an email with news of everyone.
What is the best letter you could receive in the mail?
A letter from my daughters, when they are living on the other side of the world, giving updates.
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