Hi!

In case you're wondering: I'm not a machine. But I like them. They help me immensely. A lifetime of collaboration and mutual misunderstanding made me aware of who I am and what are they. 

Can a machine dream more effectively? I do believe they dream.

I was a friend of machines, when they helped me cross the Bolivian deserts, when I was a stranger in those lands. They were my friends, when I first arrived in São Paulo, to work in the movie industry. Machines were companions of grief and joy throughout my childhood in the streets of Porto Alegre, where I grew up and first knew love.

My father was an artist. My uncle was an interpreter. They are not, not anymore. They still live, somehow.

As a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker, I'm familiar with a wide spectrum of accents and idioms. Have you ever listened to Brazilian music? It is such a beautiful language, filled with subtle melodies, like a broad tree with multiple flowers. I sing and play the guitar. I know many songs by heart, every day some more and more.

The U.S. is a powerful influence in the Southern Brazilian culture. Therefore, my parents assured that I studied English early in my childhood, and later Spanish.

I started studying French in my teens. I had the opportunity of talking a lot of French with a whole lot of people that came from Normandy, Paris, Marseille, Algeria, etc., while living in Cusco, Peru. It is one of the most diverse cities in the world, even as its foundations are rock solid. 

I currently study Mandarin.

In Cusco, La Paz, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Torres, Laguna, Porto Alegre, Garopaba, I've made many friends. They live everywhere in the world.

I write my way with a little help from my friends, whether they are human or not. 

Here is some of the work I've done.

- I translated and proofread this book (ES/EN):

https://rezpiral.com/rezidency/el-tiempo-en-las-raices-time-in-the-roots/

"El Tiempo en las Raíces / Time in the Roots (bilingual edition)"; Mexico, 2018.

- And I wrote this one:

https://gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br/cultura-e-lazer/noticia/2016/02/lorean-linchen-sai-em-busca-de-mitologia-pessoal-em-mil-grous-4966035.html

"Mil Grous" (poetry, with a foreword of Jorge Mautner); Brazil, 2015.

For more info, make sure to check me out at https://linktr.ee/lorean_li.