Floods are not merely meteorological phenomena—they are structural fissures. This essay emerges from the recurrent inundations devastating southern Brazil since 2023, yet it builds upon something deeper: how we choose to see (or refuse to see) what rises from the mud.

Among Reflections: The Secrets We Conceal is a visual narrative crafted through reflections. In flooded streets, in absences, in hunger, in solidarity—what resurfaces isn’t just water: it’s the distortion of our history, the landscape of neglect, the repetition of all we ignored.

Here, reflection operates as both language and metaphor. It is the presence of the invisible—the echo of a nation submerged by inequality, omissions, and collapse. This essay invites pause and confrontation: Before what the waters insist on returning, what do we still strive to hide?

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