On a sunny afternoon, first signs of the incoming Summer
Three shadows
This week-end , the Vinyl Market at Campo de Santa Clara, Lisbon. Good chance to find some good old 12’ LP records – and many memories. I found a few records I did not knew, and many others I had forgotten. Bad photo (made with a re-loaded disposable plastic camera).
A few findings. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Electric Ladyland” double LP (I had it forty years ago – someone stole it from me) and an album from Marianne Faithfull (I have a soft spot for her songs – she could have had a different life away from the shadow of Mick Jagger). Also a box with three LPs (Keith Jarret’s solo concerts in Bremen and in Lausanne). A fruitfull Saturday
A sketch from yesterday
From last night a sketch of a female model (mangaka thin marker and light grey brush pencil)
And two more old photos from Lisbon.
Two musicians at the Campo de Santa Clara
And the chessboard we walk on at the Town Hall Square
Three drawings and a photo
Three drawings (india ink and kuretake brush) of a live model
… and a photo taken from a rural roadside stand, selling ceramics and statues. I am still in doubt if the two statues were put side by side just by chance… I should have asked.
The beach in winter
Not a recent photo, but it shows the atmosphere and feeling of a beach during the winter season
Museum
While visiting a photo exhibition, in a dark area, there was this well lit long staircase with narrow but long steps. Some children seemed to be lurking at the top. A moment of mystery and surprise.
Some more drawing sessions
From two drawing/sketching sessions this month, now with two male nude models
A brief moment of unreality
Saturday afternoon, I was walking along the busy São Paulo Street, in downtown Lisbon. Suddenly, I was surprised by the view of an almost empty side street, just two girls photographing each other, no one else in sight. I just had the time to take this photo – a few moments later cars and people were filling that narrow street.
Relicarium
A medium format analog photography – made in a studio, not in a sacristy.
Adufeira
The Adufe is a square-shaped membranophone, introduced to Portugal by the Arabs in the 8th and 9th centuries. It has a square wooden structure and is covered on both sides with tanned goatskin. Traditionally one of the faces is that of a male animal, the other that of a female animal (some say it sounds better that way !). In the corners there are decorations with colored ribbons.
It is played in a vertical position and struck with the fingers and hands. Inside there are grains, seeds or small stones that make a rattling noise when shaking the Adufe. It is an instrument usually played by women (“adufeiras”) and has a strong presence in the interior of central Portugal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adufe
I used the old and very rough wooden structure of a small-sized adufe as a frame for a small painting (oil on plywood), as a memory of its origin.
Just a table and chairs
…but the complex structure of the chairs, table and their shadows looks amazing. Photo made at the Town Hall square, Lisbon.
Some more drawings
Some recent drawings from a young asian girl wearing a traditional hindustanic outfit. Drawings on kraft paper using black marker, pastel, charcoal and white chalk
Kayaks
Nice to see some young people interested in water sports on the Tagus river.
Photo made in Arrrentela, Seixal.
Watching
A couple passing by is watched by the sculpture above them.
There is always someone watching us
Photo exhibition in Poland
Some images from the opening of the photograpy exhibition at Barak Kultury, in Poznan, Poland, last January 12th. Photos from Tomasz Bednarkiewicz and from myself.
João Avelar images 