Miguel Soler-Roig

The photograph belongs to the project Longings, a series that reflects upon the frustrated desire of the human being and in which the portrayed cling strongly to nostalgia. In the case of Boca do Inferno the protagonist represents the one known as The Scarlet Woman or The Monster: Hanni Larissa Jaeger, companion of the occultist Aleister Crowley. The story tells that both travelled to Cascais to visit the writer Fernando Pessoa, with whom Crowley had exchange letter correspondence. After a discussion with Jaeger in the hotel where they were staying and the abandonment by her, the magician pretended that he committed suicide on this rock. He left a note inside his cigarette case that is now inscribed on a plaque. The phrase prays: "I cannot live without you, the other mouth of hell will grab me, it will not be as hot as yours". Pessoa would be responsible for passing the news to the entire Portuguese press and would be questioned as a possible murder suspect. The reason, a possible revenge: in his diaries he alluded to a lover who had apparently been seduced by Crowley. Was she the Scarlet Woman herself? In the photography, is she who looks to the horizon waiting to be metaphorically swallowed by the Boca do Inferno. Finally, the occultist appeared a few weeks later of the supposed suicide in a gallery in Berlin where he exhibited his works.

MS 001 - Boca do Inferno 

51X37cm

Year of 2015

MS 002 - Lost Highway

51X37cm Photography in 2017

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