Dream on Cyclist Igor Calvo

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F o t o g r a f a d e l a p o r t a d a:M AYA, 201 0 de I GOR CALVO

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Las traducciones al ingls de todos lostextos han sido realizadas por cuenta yriesgo del propio autor de las fotografas.

The english translations of the originaltexts in spanish have been made by theauthor of the photographs himself at hisown risk.


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The project of Dream on cyclist was born during a stay in Berl in, when roaming, Istart ed to not ice, among the sea of bikes and cyclists riding through t he cit y, small

objects, like toys, with which some cyclists had decorated their handlebars givingtheir bikes a smil ing, cheerf ul character, almost turning them int o a cart oon.Just wit h that small detail t hey made me smile and wonder about who where thosepeople that conveyed such an image of optimism and vit ali ty in t he midst of a cit ythat, despite its policies to encourage a more ecological and sustainable transport ,it is st il l a European capital that reproduces many of the problems that af f lict thebig cit ies today.

I never get to know any of these people; however, I sti ll questioned myself aboutthe lively and proud owners of these cart oons like bikes. I took t he decision then touse my imagination t o guess who they were. But I did not want my photographs tobe jus t mere documents , jus t records o f an "eccen t r i c i t y . "I wanted to give a voice to the characters I had start ed to create in my mind and tomake it in a way it would be a small t ribute to a more opt imist ic and lively view of

life, despite whatever misfortunes, troubles or difficult situations we all have toface in our everyday life.

Thus, each photograph is accompanied by a small excerpt from a literary work,which allows me later to write a text in which I try to imagine an episode of thepersonal history of each of the owners of such an special bike that makes usdream, if only for a brief moment , when we walk through the cit y.

Igor Calvo

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Bestias de Inglaterra, bestias de Irlanda Bestias de toda

tierra y clima Od mis gozosas nuevas que cantan un futuro feliz Tarde o temprano llegar la hora

en la que la t irana del hombre sea derrocada y las ubrr imaspraderas de Inglaterra

tan slo por animales sean holladas.de Rebelin en la granja (Captulo 1) ,

George Orwell

Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland ! Beasts of everyland and clime !

Hearken to my joyful t idings of the golden future t ime !Soon or late the day is coming

tyrant Man shall be o'ert hrown and the f ruit fulfields of England

shall be trod by beasts alone.

f rom Animal farm (Chapter 1) ,George Orwell


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willingdonabeauty Todava recuerdo el da en el que el comisariopoltico vino desde la capital para hacernos llegar

la buena nueva de la revolucin.Nos dijo que la revolucin haba vencido y que apart ir de entonces bamos a ser libres y a vivi r en unmundo mejor y, por primera vez en mi vida, sentaverdaderamente como todo un horizonte denuevas posibilidades se expanda ante m.Lo que vino despus borr toda imagen o

sentimiento que pudiera remitir a los ideales delibertad, progreso, justiciaen nuestra sociedad.

Sin embargo, aquellas palabras pronunciadas porun orgulloso miembro de la victoriosa revolucin

nunca dejaron de resonar en mi cabeza, aunqueahora su recuerdo me traslade el anhelo por elcontacto con la naturaleza y los animales en lagranja donde me cri, en vez de llevarme a un nuevomundo de cemento f ro y gr is.


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No se la razn que me llevaba a mostrarme tan belicoso con los dems. No, no es queestuviera siempre metido en peleas, pero me quejaba y protestaba y me enfadaba y sloquera juguetes para hacer guerras imaginarias

Con el paso del tiempo, me iba dando cuenta de que contra lo que peleaba era contra mi

propio aburrimiento y que, cuando mejor me lo pasaba y mejor era mi relacin con todo elmundo, era, simple y llanamente, cuando mi imaginacin creaba aventuras que poder llevaradelante.

Para mi familia, mis aventuras acababan al cruzar el umbral del jardn, as que paracalmarme empezaron a regalarme muchos libros, por supuesto, de aventuras.

Ahora es probable que sea un poco mayor y que mi economa actual haga inviable poderplanear aventuras recorriendo el mundo, pero t odava sigo dndole vueltas a si Julio Verneexperiment como aventurero todo lo que ms tarde plasm en sus libros. De hecho, creoque de verdad existe una entrada al centro de la tierra y que all continan viviendo losdinosaurios que se salvaron de la extincin masiva


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I do not know the reason why I was so bell igerent wit h others. I do not mean that I wasalways fight ing , but I was always complaining and moaning and get t ing angry and justwanted to play wit h toys for performing imaginary wars ...

Over t ime, I gradually realized that I was fight ing against my own boredom and that , when I

really had a good t ime and my relationship wit h the rest of the people was bet ter indeed, itwas, quit e simply, when my imaginat ion made up adventures I could carry them out.

For my family, my adventures just f inished when I crossed the threshold of the garden, so tocalm me down they began to give me many books, of course, adventure books.

Now, I am probably a lit t le bit older and my current economics status do not make me able to

plan adventures traveling around the world; but I could not help myself thinking whetherJules Verne experienced himself as adventurer everything he later ref lected in his books. Infact, I really think t here is an entry t o the center of the eart h and that there are st il l livingdinosaurs that survived the mass ext inct ion.


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bloch


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De repente el j ugador echo a correr. El port ero, que llevabauna camiseta de un amarillo chilln,

se quedo parado sin hacer un solo movimiento,y el j ugador le lanz el baln a las manos.

de El miedo del portero al penalt i ,Peter Handke

The kicker suddenly start ed his run. The goalkeeper, whowas wearing a bright yellow jersey,

stood absolutely st il l, and the penalt y kickershot the ball into his hands.

f rom The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalt y ,Peter Handke


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- De verdad que eres la chica ms rara que conozco -dijo la madre.

- No falt ara ms - dijo Sofa-Todos los seres humanos son ms o menos raros. Yo soy un

ser humano, por lo tanto soy ms o menos rara.T slo tienes una hija, por lo tanto soy la ms rara.

de El mundo de Sofa ,Jostein Gaarder

- You really are the most peculiar girl I have ever had -said her mother.

- I should hope so - said Sophie-Everybody is more or less peculiar.

I am a person, so I am more or less peculiar.You have only one girl , so I am the most peculiar.

f rom Sophie's World .Jostein Gaarder


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sofia Hasta bien entrada en la adolescencia,nunca fui consciente del porqu mi familiame protega tanto del mundo exterior,incluso de mis amigas y de los profesores.

Aunque ahora lo comprenda mejor, elmisterio que se cierne sobre el porqu delcomportamiento de la gente cuando estconmigo, no ha hecho sino incrementarse.

Me acaban de autoedit ar en Internet la 2 parte de mi estudio sobre Lainf luencia de las mascotas de peluche en el devenir anti -taurino de la sociedadeuropea contempornea ; soy una gran lectora (devoro las tiras cmicas de lalt ima pgina de los diarios); estoy a la lt ima en tecnologa (me manejo a lasmil maravil las con mi telfono mvil); y, adems, soy una gran conversadora.

Para alguien con carencias psquico-neuronales no est nada mal. No t e parece?


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I t was not until I grew up as a teenagerthat I was aware of the reasons why myfamily protected me from the outsideworld, even f rom my f riends and teachers.

Although now I understand it better, themystery about the reasons why peoplebehave like the way t hey do when they arewith me, has only but increased.

I've just self-published on the Internet the second part of my study on "Theinfluence of teddy pets on the future perspectives of an anti-bullfightingcontemporary European society", I am an avid reader (I devour the cartoons ofthe newspapers), I am up to date wit h the latest technology (I am an expert inthe use of mobile phones), and, also, I usually get involved in greatconversations.

Not bad for someone wit h psycho-neurological defici ts. Don't you think?


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federico

Tanto t iempo pasaba en el campo, incluso a base de falt ar a la escuela, a la iglesia o a las

furiosas peleas con los chicos del pueblo de al lado; que mi abuela, imi tando el est ilo rot undo ycircunspecto del prroco Don Carlos, les deca muy seriamente a mis padres que se buscaranun t rabajo y se compraran un piso nuevo en la ciudad; ya que, de cont inuar en el pueblo, misnicos amigos iban a ser los animales y las alimaas.

Lst ima que le hicieran caso.Lst ima que yo tambin les hiciera caso.

Menos mal que, finalmente, encontr trabajo en el albergue de recuperacin animal quegest iona la ONG a favor del buen t rato a los animales. As, pude volver a recuperar el contactoperdido con todos mis amigos e intentar devolverles, al menos un poco de todo el cario y laamistad que siempre me han ofrecido.


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I spent so much t ime in the fields, even skipping f rom school or going to church or avoiding

the furious f ight s wit h neighboring town boys, that my grandmother, imitat ing t he severe andcircumspect style of Don Carlos the priest , used to tell very seriously to my parents to seek ajob and buy a new f lat in t he cit y; for in case that I would continue in t own, my only friendswere going t o be the animals and the vermin.

Shame that they believed her.Shame that I believed them too.

Luckily I finally found a job in the animalrecovery shelter that manages the NGO for thehumane treatment of animals. So, I was able toregain t he lost contact with all my fr iends and totry to restore, at least a little bit of all the love

and friendship that they have always offeredme.


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Esos son los nicos recuerdos de mi familia que puedo reconocer como verdaderos, yaque a part ir del da en que por primera vez les o gri tar todo parece estar definit ivamenteemborronado y se suceden unas t ras ot ras las imgenes a ritmo de vert iginosos f lashesque me hacen dudar de si son reales o no: discusiones, peleas, el t emor a ser encontrados,la huida, el escondi te, las sirenas de la polica hasta que me despiert o sobresaltada, sinentender muy bien lo que alguien que no conozco me est diciendo, y me dirijo hacia un

espejo donde veo una imagen ref lejada muy diferente a la que debera corresponder a unania de mi edad.

Nunca he recuperado ese lapso de tiempo que me llev de la infancia a la adolescencia,pero el psiquiatra que me atendi durante aos siempre se mostr orgulloso ysorprendido a la vez de mi capacidad para mirar hacia delante en cada paso que dabahacia mi recuperacin y el asalt o definit ivo al mundo de los adult os. Filosofa que sigo

aplicando a da de hoy; aunque, tambin he de reconocer, que a veces vuelvo mi miradahacia esos primeros aos y me fijo en la delicadeza con la que mi madre nos ensea adecorar las cermicas que luego venda en una pequea tienda del sur de la ciudad

La verdad es que tuve unos primeros aos de infanciaabsolutamente maravillosos y privilegiados: cada maaname despertaba mi madre con un beso, papa haca eldesayuno y me acercaba el vaso de leche mientras meguiaba un ojo para recordarme que yo era su favorita. El

resto del da se iba ent re juegos, caricias y alguna que ot raleccin de literatura o matemticas (mis padres queranalargar en lo posible nuestro ingreso en la educacinreglada, ya que confiaban ms en lo que ellos mismospodran ensearnos).


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The t ruth is that I had an absolutely wonderf ul andprivileged childhood: every morning my mother woke me upwith a kiss, dad made breakfast and gave me a glass of milkwhile winking at me to remind me that I was his favouriteone. The rest of the day there were games, caresses and some

occasional lesson of li terature or mathemat ics (my parentswanted to delay as much as possible our entry into formaleducat ion, as they relied more on what they might teach us).

Those are the only memories of my f amily that I can recognize as t rue, because since thefirst t ime I heard t hem scream all seems to be defini tely blurred and the images beat likedizzying f lashes in my mind to the point of making me doubt whether t hey are real or not :arguments, fights, the fear of being found, f leeing, hiding, police sirens ... unt il I wake upin shock, not being able to understand what someone to whom I do not know is tell ing me,and I go to a mirror where I see an image very different from that which should

correspond to a gir l my age.

I have never recovered that lapse of t ime that t ook me from childhood to adolescence, butthe psychiatrist who treated me for years was always both proud and surprised of myability to look ahead at each step I took towards my recovery and adulthood. A"philosophy" that I st il l apply t oday in my everyday lif e; even though, I do also admit that ,sometimes, I turn my eyes to those early years and stare at my mother while she teach us

with immense love to decorate the pottery that later she will sell in a small shop insouthern cit y.


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Y yo tambin iba a ser uno de ellos, yo tambin iba ahacerme a la mar, en una goleta,

y escuchara las rdenes del contramaestre, a nuestrogaitero, y las viejas

canciones marineras que recordaban mil aventuras. A la mar ! Y en busca de

una isla ignorada y para descubrir tesoros enterrados !de La Isla del Tesoro (parte segunda, Captulo 7) , de

Robert Louis Stevenson

And I was going t o sea myself, to sea in aschooner, with a piping boatswain

and pig-t ailed singing seamen,to sea, bound for an unknown island,

and to seek for buried treasure!f rom Treasure Island (Part two, Chapter 7),

Robert Louis Stevenson


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El desayuno: leche y galletas; el colegio: buenas notas ypocos amigos; la comida: pescado y verduras; las clasesext raescolares: judo y piano; la cena: mi padre y sut rabajo y mi madre y su cmetelo t odo ; la noche: no

puedo ver la peli y a la cama que maana hay quemadrugar para ir al colegio.

Entre medias: Robert Louis Stevenson y La Isla delTesoro.

Ahora, trabajo casi sin descanso para poder tener una

vida y poder pagar un alquiler exorbi tante en el centro dela ciudad.

Menos mal que, en el fondo, sigo siendo un pirata.


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Breakfast : milk and cookies; school: good grades andfew friends; Lunch: fish and vegetables; extracurricularclasses: judo and piano; dinner: my father and his workand my mother and her: "eat it all , the night : I can not

see the movie and I have to go to bed, as tomorrow I mustt o g e t u p e a r l y f o r s c h o o l .

In between: Robert Louis Stevenson and Treasure Island.

Now, I work almost wit hout a break t o have a li fe and tobe able to pay an exorbitant rent in t he center of the cit y.

Fort unately, at the bottom of myself, I am st il l a pirate.


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mariana

Me parece que los cruceros se disponen a cortarnos elcamino.

Entonces han notado nuestra presencia.

Eso temo, Sandokn. Te aconsejo que nos diri jamos maradentro e intentemos el paso por entre el enemigo.Mira, se separan para dejarnos al medio.

Quieren atacarnos en pleno mar. Quieren batalla! dijo Sandokn

Pues bien, la t endrn!de Los Tigres de Mompracem (XXVII ) ,

Emilio Salgari

- I think t hose ships are trying to cut off the way.- Then, they have noticed our presence.

- I am afraid so, Sandokan. I suggest heading out to opensea and try to get us through the enemy.

Look , they move away leaving us in t he middle.They want to attack us at sea.

- They want battle! said Sandokan - Well, they will!f rom The Tigers of Mompracem (XXVII ) ,

Emilio Salgari


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My parents were pioneers in f ight ing for animal r ightsand defending the environment from the constantaggression of human beings. All that, only armed with theword and the conviction that their message would

penetrate in society and would produce the necessarycultural change (of mentali ty).

I had always doubts that people wouldfinally respond to that message of

ecology and love; besides, although Ifollowed my parents wherever they wentand learned with everything theyprovided me, I could not stop myselffrom reading with absolute passion thenovels of Sandokan and to imaginemyself as the captain who would lead the

fight against injustice. That is to say, Iwas a bit more rebellious than the"pacif ism" of my parents demanded.

In any case, they were good t imes; most ly,they were times of great enthusiasm. Not

like now, when the disastrous state of theplanet is on the verge of reaching a pointof no return, when injustice is the rulerather than the exception and when itreally seems that nothing can be solved.However, as for me, I will not stopfighting. I could not, at least while the

spiri t of the Tiger of Malaysia stay withme.


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Quiero recorrer el mundo. Yo no soy como las ot ras abejas;mi corazn est hecho

para la alegra y las sorpresas, para las emociones y lasaventuras. No me atemoriza

ningn peligro. Acaso no tengo fuerza, valor y un aguijn?Es delicioso vivir!

de La abeja Maya (Captulo 1) ,Waldemar Bonsels

I want to see and know the world in bloom. I am not likethe other bees, my heart is meant

for pleasure and surprises, experiences and adventures.I will not be afraid of any dangers.

Haven't I got st rength and courage and a st ing?It's glorious to be alive.

f rom The adventures of Maya the Bee(Chapter1) ,Waldemar Bonsels


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maya Cmo odiaba las muecas, los vest iditos de princesa, elballet, los buenos modales, a l@s cuitad@s de mis amig@sy al cura y las monj as del convento de al lado de casa.

Yo era feliz coleccionando y estudiando a los insectos einvertebrados que invadan el bosque aledao al pueblo(qu magnficos ejemplares de la complejidad de la vida) ynunca entend que eso pudiera convert irme en un chicazoy alejara a los buenos hombres de mi lado.

Tuve que emigrar para poder estudiar las masculinasciencias naturales y viajar aun ms lejos para realizar miTesis sobre La Sociedad de la Informacin de las Abejas .

Dicen que lo conseguido con esfuerzo sabe an mejor. Pormi parte, he de decir que me he convertido en toda unagourmet de la vida.


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How I hated dolls, the princess lit t le dresses, the ballet ,the good manners, my unfortunate friends and the priestand nuns from the abbey next to my parents' house.

I was happy collecting and studying the insects andinvertebrates that invaded the nearby forest (what amagnificent examples of the complexity of life) and Inever understood that i t could make me become a tomboyand would keep the "good guys" away from me.

I had to emigrate to be able to study the "manly" sciencesand travel even further to complete my thesis on "TheInformat ion Society of Bees".

They say that all things achieved with effort taste evenbetter. As for me, I must say that I've become a truegourmet of li fe.


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nakata- Es decir, que es una persona singular.

Oshima niega con la cabeza.

- No, no es eso. Para singular, yo.Ella es una persona que no es esclava de los

convencionalismos.Yo an no conozco la diferencia ent re no ser una persona

ordinaria y ser una persona singular.de Kafka en la orilla (Captulo 13) ,

Haruki Murakami

- You mean she's an unusual person?"Oshima shakes his head.

- No, I wouldn't say that. If you're talking about unusual,that would be me. She just isn't bound by conventional

ways of doing things. I 'm st ill t rying to figure out t hedif ference between different and unusual.f rom Kafka on the shore (Chapter 13) ,

Haruki Murakami


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nakata

Lo ms curioso de losinsultos y vejaciones quepadec durante toda miinfancia fue constatarcmo el slo hecho de mi

obesidad poda generartal variedad y abundanciade palabras hirientes ys i t u a c i o n e sdesagradables, que seconverta en una duralecc in de l a g ran

cantidad de dao quepueden generar laspersonas hac ia suspropios semejantes.

Sin embargo, yo pensabaque gracias a mi peso ys i g u i e n d o u n d u r o

entrenamiento podraconvertirme en un granluchador de sumo; y a esome dediqu en cuerpo yalma.

El ejercicio y la adolescencia

se llevaron finalmente aquellaposibilidad (adems de losinsultos); pero, aun hoy en da,el sumo sigue siendo mideport e favorit o


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The most i ntr iguingthing about all the insultsand humiliations sufferedthroughout my childhoodwas to know how the mere

fact of my obesity couldgenerate such a varietyand richness of hurtfulwords and unpleasantsituations, a harsh lessonof the great amount ofdamage that people can

inflict to their own peers.

However, I thought thatwith my weight andfollowing a hard t raining I

could become a greatsumo wrestler, sport towhich I devoted myselfwith all my strengths.

The exercise and adolescence

i t se l f f i na l l y t ook tha tpossibility away (the insultstoo); although, even today,sumo is still my favoritesport.


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silvio Recuerdo que, al principio, tena miedo de los payasos y,sobre todo, de que mis padres nos llevaran un ao t ras otroal circo que visitaba el pueblo durante las fiestaspatronales. No dira que era una fobia, pero si que, en vez desonrer ante el esperpntico maquillaje y aspecto de lospayasos, sent a algo ms que angust ia ante el temor de quese volviesen ms locos de lo que parecan estar y me

atacasen.

Un da, incluso, me escap de la vigilancia de mispadres cuando accedamos al circo y ech a corrertan rpido como pude por dnde yo crea ver unasalida. Lamentablemente, fui a dar a una especiede tienda donde, horror!!!, se estaban

maquillando la tropa de payasos del circo.Aterrado, comenc a buscar una salida y me topde bruces con un payaso sin maquillaje queresulto ser el hombre ms hermoso y apuesto que

jams haba visto.

Ya no quise esconderme ms de lospayasos y fui descubriendo que lo queme asustara a partir de entonces,tendra que ver ms con misinclinaciones sexuales y cmoocult arlas a los dems que con fobiasinfantiles.

Con un matrimonio de conveniencia fracasado y dos relaciones rotas por mi culpacon hombres maravillosos tras de mi, me encuentro a la puerta de un circo con lavana esperanza de que tras el maquillaje de alguno de los payasos se encuentre elamor de mi vida.


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I remember t hat , being a child, I was af raid of clowns and,above all , I feared that my parents would take us every yearto the circus that came to town during the local holidays. Iwould not say it was a phobia, even t hough, instead ofsmiling at the grotesque makeup and appearance of theclowns, I felt something more than anguish to the fearingof being at tacked by those crazy clowns.

One day, even, I escaped the vigilance of myparents when getting into the circus and ran asfast as I could to where I thought t here was a safeexit . Unfortunately, I fell int o some kind of a tentwhere, horror!!!, there were the troop of clowns

dressing up for the show. Terrified, I startedlooking for a way out when I encountered a clownstill without makeup that turned out to be themost beautiful and handsome man I had everseen.

Since then, I did not want to hidemyself from the clowns and Idiscovered what would scare me fromthat moment on, and that it wouldhave more to do with my sexualorientation and how to hide it fromothers than with my childhood

phobias.

After a failed marr iage of convenience and two broken relat ionships wit h wonderf ulmen, I f ind myself now in f ront of a circus in t he vain hope that behind the makeup ofs o m e o f t h e c l o w n s I c o u l d f i n d t h e l o v e o f m y l i f e .


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