In this book of portraits by Pere Colom, we not only find the artistic gaze, we also find the homage, the gaze of someone who has shared with them a time outside of time, a gaze of love and complicity, a gaze of someone who is and feels like one more of that community, of that landscape. This book is a tribute to both those who are here and those who are no longer here, or to those who have had to endure paradise in other invented places.

Antonio Rigo
Poet

Photographing people in closed situations, one-on-one, is a hard task for both the subject and the photographer. The photographer has to crack open the personality of his subject, and the subject must be willing to reveal themselves.

Andrew MacLean
Photographer

In the texts written to complement their portraits, the characters describe what attracted them to

Deià. They write about the powerful and beautiful nature, but above all, about the inhabitants and

the feeling of being in a very special place, where they were not judged, and where they found

stimulating conversations, fun, relaxation, and an artistic atmosphere..

Joana Llabrés
Art Historian / Lyric Singer