The cancelled summers: forty photographs and a poem. Five years ago, in the midst of the pandemic, I caught a glimpse of the place where present moments devoid of expectations go. The cancelled summers is the book that collects those veiled images, in the double sense of lived through a filter and guarded. In this work I modify, intervene graphically, re-edit and re-signify photographs from my personal archive with new images taken exclusively during the confinement, stringing the whole together with the verses of a poem, also shelled out from my own previous compositions. In the era of the pandemic I imagined a plasticised place, between my cornea and my eyelid, where I could veil the signs of the loss of our present. Before the great fracture, we lived without knowing it a continuous summer.