Thursday 25 May 2017


Amar pelos dois 

“True originality in art is never an aim but a reward”

                                                            John Berger

Some facts happened last weeks have given me a bit of hope.

Tuesday 16 May 2017

Arrepio  
Each time Little Manuel woke up he saw dark figures beside his bed.

In the small hours monks used to approach the bed number 38 at the Dona Estefânia Hospital in Lisbon. We are talking of the year nineteen forty.

Tuesday 9 May 2017

DO NOT BREAK THE CHAIN
I´m learning to read and write and I like to do it on my own. All help is very welcome

     I came across the letter while I was cleaning the larder. It was inside a china pot, folded four times.

Monday 1 May 2017

Guernica

Picasso had no inspiration. Although he wanted to be working for the Muses´ visit, he did not make progress. The artist had a job commissioned by the Government of the Second Republic to exhibit at the International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life, in Paris, 1937.