Positive asphalt always tries to see the bright side of everything.
#9: The wonderful smell of a fresh Post-It package
Please allow me to divert from my quest to conquer envelope world. I MUST state my love for fresh Post-Its.
Realising I was out of the square pieces of gorgeousness (and after a brief moment of panic), I ran to the local stationery supplier for a fix. What a pleasure, to rip open a fresh packet of Post-Its! I can’t avoid inhaling the wonderful perfume – reminds me the smell of the sticker collections we had during our childhood.
The relief I feel compares only to the sense of order the yellow fellows (couldn’t resist) pass on. And what a way to save paper on tasks that don’t require much footprint…
The yellow squares stack on my desk, waiting for the waterfalls of gibberish I fill them with: miles of notes, thoughts one tries to catch mid-air, concepts for projects, memos I forget to read, doodles, the inevitable arithmetics – life concentrated.
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#7: Spatial fiction at Oporto – O labirinto / The labyrinth (2 of 2)
English version of the text from last post:
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Small spatial fantasies from Ribeira
Small fantasies shaped into Ribeira’s mental diagram.
More than documenting Ribeira and portray its scenarios or its quirks, the composition aims at proposing a fresh look on the spaces lived daily. A legacy is evoked – one of alleys made rivers flowing to the Douro, of heavy buildings clustering on the hills that compose the borough.
One of the fantasies gathers the volumes the inhabitants occupy, testimonies of the city’s crossroads and divergences, of time passing by. Hence, a castle of coloured blocks and familiar textures is built – the stage for lives being lived everyday.
In the other, the gaps fuse into one, creating spaces where you and me walk along, just like the way we perceive them when we choose to see life in a different way. A labyrinth that allows for a different story, filled with secrets, revealing its true shape in full clarity.
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#6: Spatial fiction at Oporto – O morro / The hill (1 of 2)
A while ago, I took part in a course on digital photography at FAUP, the Architecture Faculty of the Oporto University.
It focused on photography as a technique for spatial analysis and used the medieval borough of Ribeira as a case study. It’s historic and spatial complexity ensured plenty of depth for the studies and pretexts for photographic detours.
The material produced was published on CCRE – Centro de Comunicação e Representação Espacial / FAUP, along with the short brief that follows.
(Please check out the next post for the English version.)
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Pequenas fantasias espaciais ribeirinhas
Pequenas fantasias em jeito de esquema mental da Ribeira.
Procura-se, mais que documentar a Ribeira nas suas cenas ou nos seus tiques, propor um olhar fresco dos espaços que se atravessam todos os dias.
Num par de fantasias, evocam-se heranças de ruas feitas rios que desaguam no Douro, de prédios feitos fortes que se aglomeram nos morros do bairro.
Numa, juntam-se os volumes que as gentes ocupam, testemunhos de encontros e desencontros da cidade, do tempo longo. Constrói-se um castelo de blocos coloridos, de texturas que reconhecemos, palco das vidas que lá existem todos os dias.
Noutra, os intervalos unem-se, surgem espaços onde andamos, tu e eu, tal como os vemos quando resolvemos olhar a cidade de forma diferente. Um labirinto que deixa contar uma outra história, cheia de segredos, revelando com clareza o seu verdadeiro recorte.
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#3: Impromptu 1 – Ao-gyo
Ao-gyo being the latest friend of the family, it seemed adequate to offer to publicise his presence, which I guess he appreciates. Yes, he’s a boy, says his bright, flowing tail. By this time, I am positive he fell on a pool of liquid turquoise but managed to halt the movement halfway, hence the double tone body.
Ritinha and Xico left me with not much info to start from, but we managed to get him a proper Betta fish lunch and there he went. Swimming, it appears.
Promised Ritinha I would post a snap of Ao-Gyo and I’m not planning to fail on that.
Going Bite-size 