To Carry the World on Your Back represents a Globe plan
made to the scale of a historic globe that exists in the
Fundo Antigo da Reitoria of the University of Porto.

The sections of the buds are composed of metal plates,
where I present images of different origins in a montage
with Warburg’s Bilderatlas in mind.

Despite the heterogeneity, my father assumes protagonism in this project: in the reproductions, you can see him in his 20’s, when he was sent to the Overseas War between 1971 and 1972.

Here I also present official army books and documents
Portuguese belonging to him, images from Bonfim, Porto,  where he used to live as a kid.
You’ll be able to find images from Mueda, Mozambique from 1970, as well as images from the present time, screenshots captured from Google Streetview.

To form the images on metal, I use a technical protocol from the XIX century-old, widely used at the time for the reproduction of maps at the time, in the industrial beginnings of photography.

The project seeks to highlight the relationship history of cartography with the development of War.