What’s up guys,
Today I’m interviewing Tania Panés. We met at Las Dalias in Ibiza, and this bubbly women caught my attention as she was typewriting poems for strangers. Pretty unusual!
She isn’t satisfied with an ordinary life either and we’ve discussed the power of connection with strangers, facing fears, the way art can allow us to liberate our emotions, why vulnerability is a gift, why working on the streets has been her biggest teacher.
Some quotes that touched me during the interview:
“The first type I did it, I felt something meaningful I hadn’t felt in a long time”
“When I decided to travel with my typewriter, I felt like a shark liberated from an aquarium”
“People don’t know me, so they feel allowed to tell me whatever”
“We’re taught to not cry and repress our emotions, so I try to hold space for people”
“There is a fusion happening in the creation of the poem, the strangers and I become one”
“My typewriter is a 100 years old , its like a time machine”
“I’m asked to write about love all the time. I want people to ask me to write about belly buttons, dinausors or nuclear medicine”
“Working on the streets is the biggest teacher”
“People ask hi how are you, good and you? I don’t want that in my life. If I ask how you are I want to know, it might take 5 minutes to respond.”
“A lot of teenagers come to me and ask about being yourself, anorexia, self-perception.”
“Vulnerability is a gift”
“I am not interested in normality”
“Life means living fears behind and opening yourself to people”.