Grécia, 350 ac.

Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin, Te Faaturuma, 1891

Clothing soul

This thing I am making is my clothing soul.

Ursula K. Le Guin, 1991

Ursula K. Le Guin - A pele

THE SKIN

"All around us is the skin,
helping keep our bodies in.”

I’ve known that poem sixty years.
There’s more to it than first appears.

If we were skinless, like a cloud,
would we not mingle with the crowd?

Would not our little bodies be
more boundless even than the sea,

and gaseous as the atmosphere?
Would we be there as well as here?

Would I be you, and you be me,
and both of us mere entropy?

The two it takes to tango need
to be discrete, not just discreet.

The skin, however, does have holes
for letting in and out our souls,

our food, and such necessities.
It is designed to serve and please.

It washes well, but with the years
gets wrinkles, little spots and smears,

and somehow doesn’t seem to fit
as seamlessly as once as it did.

But still it is my nomad’s tent,
my shelter, my integument,

the outside of myself, this thin,
seemingly superficial skin,

that hems me neatly all about,
keeping foreign bodies out,
and keeping me, a while yet, in.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Woody

CT, Woody e gladíolo sobre a paleta, 11 março2106

Testemunhas

CT, Testemunhas, janeiro 2018 

dois dedos de vidro

Dois dedos de vidro (amuleto) Egipto, 664-332 AC

Martin e Paula

Martin Gusinde,
Selk'nam man dressed for Hain Ceremony,
 1923

Desenho a coisa até à sua existência - só consigo pensar fazendo . 

Paula Rego

António José Forte

Cristina Tavares, &C, janeiro 2018

Entra no café.
Abre um livro fantástico, impossível.
Mas não lê.
Trabalha - numa música secreta, inaudível.


António José Forte

Cristina Tavares

Cristina Tavares, &C, janeiro de 2018

Hélio Oiticica, Metaesquema, 1958

Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder, Snow Flurry 1, 1948

( parabéns, t.)

Cristina Tavares, &C , janeiro 2018

Max Tilke

Max Tilke, Oriental Costumes - Drawings  (Egipte), 1922

Max Tilke, Oriental Costumes - Drawings  (Egipte), 1922

Max Tilke, Oriental Costumes - Drawings  (Turkestan), 1922

Max Tilke, Oriental Costumes - Drawings  (West Sudan, Togo), 1922

Sonia Delaunay

Design de Sonia Delaunay para o filme Le P'tit Parigot, 1926

Hieronymus Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch , detalhe de "O Jardim das Delícias" , c. 1490-1510

BW & C

CristinaTavares,
BW&C, 
janeiro 2018

Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius, cadeira, anos 50

JPS

José Pinto de Sá, Self portrait, Maputo, dezembro 2017

another voice

                  Cristina Tavares, B&W (colagens), 2018

                Cristina Tavares, B&W (colagens), 2018

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language

And next year’s words await another voice.

T. S. Elliot