A crack, Rua das Sereias, Canasvieiras, a closer view

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A crack, R. das Sereias, Canasvieiras, a closer view

 

 

 This is a closer view of the wall on a previous posting. Isn't it a perfect crack?

 

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A wall with a crack, Rua das Sereias, Canasvieiras

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A wall with a crack, R. das Sereias, Canasvieiras

 

 

 

 

This is one of my favourite places. I love to stand here.

 

 I think it's not just one of my favourite places in my neighbourhood, or in Santa Catarina, but in the entire world.

 

I like to think about what lies behind the wall. I like how nature is overcoming the wall which now has a crack. I like the angle of the corner and the slight slope of the road. I love the sad feeling it all gives.

 

These things make me feel incredibly good.

 

 

 

 

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Canasvieiras, sea, December 12, 2022

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Canasvieiras, sea, December 2, 2022

 watercolour on paper, 40.5 x 28.3 cm

 

 

 

 

Canasvieiras, sea, December 2, 2022 - detail

 

Canasvieiras, sea, December 2, 2022 - detail

My thoughts on watercolour are that when the paper receives more than two brush strokes, the effect is heavy, because transparency is lost. 

So, it is a better to of watercolour in a two layer process, with strokes and dots than with innumerable layers. That makes it a much more graphic medium than oils.

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Part of my arm, a shirt sleeve, and my table

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 Part of my arm, a shirt sleeve, and my table with a piece of paper

 

 

 

 

 

 You will agree that the bunching of my sleeve here has almost an effect like the swags in a Baroque painting. 

 

My arm itself is rather peculiar, perhaps penile, even to me, and I am not sure how I feel about it.

 

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Lost hexagonal paving slab, Canasvieiras; corners; demarcations of areas of land

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Lost hexagonal paving slab, Canasvieiras

 

 

 

This is the same wall as featuring the ladder. I wonder who put this slab here?

 I am very fond of the corners of buildings especially when showing the same colour of wall with the light hitting one side more than the other so you can see a contrast.

 I will definitely seek out more such motifs. 

 I also like wasteland: building lots cleared but never constructed upon, abandoned parking areas, paving dilapidating. 

I very much like these areas to be enclosed, distinct. 

 Merely the fact of enclosure dramatically alters how we perceive a place. Enclosure declares ownership, privacy, usage, safety, danger, that access is limited or directed to specific uses or persons or species. 

Enclosure can be strongly physical, such as a high wall, or more modestly by light fencing. Or it can be even more lightly demarcated by a change of use, such as is seen between fields. And it can be demarcated symbolically, with occasional signs  as in London postal areas, or simply a thing that is known, like the territorial zones established by children in playgrounds.

 

 

 

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Canasvieiras,wall, a sort of ladder,

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Canasvieiras,wall, a sort of ladder,

 

 

It might not really be a ladder: It might be part of an ironing board or some kind of stand. 

What is certain, however, is that it is being used by pixies to get over the grey wall. 

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Trunk, part of a washing line post, wall, house

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 Trunk, part of a washing line post, wall, house

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These items have been here for several weeks now. 

 

The resemblance of the trunk to an animal carcass is obvious and awful.

 It's so obvious, indeed, that it surprises me that there isn't a local campaign to have the trunk removed. 

 

 

 

 

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