Canasvieiras, clouds, lines

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Canasvieiras, clouds, lines

 

 

 

 

 

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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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