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PENEDA-GERÊS
Peneda-Gerês portraits
«And we now offer you a bit of rum and a piece of bread, do you accept? How about a slice of tender meat or pork? Look, I give you! Nice and clean, the bread is from baker and the ham is also good. Would you like a piece of pork? I give you! And I’ll give to you in willingly...»
LUCINDA PILOTO (82) Pitões das Júnias, Montalegre, June 2011
ETELVINA AZEVEDO (81) Pitões das Júnias
Etelvina Azevedo (81), Pitões das Júnias. It took “death” to raise her children (seven in all, five of whom survived), and now, that the final end is approaching, there is no desire for a second life. The crisis — or whatever we want to call it, because crisis has always been present — is calling faith into question. For Capitalism (as Sponville and Rimbaud say — and there is such a tragic poetry in the villages of the interior!) morality is a weakness of the brain. Here, there is little money to invest in sympathetic initiatives. For the elders, the threat of wretchedness is doubled: in many cases, there is no money to buy medication. Here is the sad result of the strange relationship we have with ourselves, in our concerns with life, with beauty and with the time to come. The exuberance (or “fatalism of happiness” — Rimbaud) of some, is the maiming of many others. It is urgent to stop and think about this.
PITÕES DAS JÚNIAS July 2010
ANA BANDARRA (87) and LUCINDA PILOTO (82) Pitões das Júnias
«And we now offer you a bit of rum and a piece of bread, do you accept? How about a slice of tender meat or pork? Look, I give you! Nice and clean, the bread is from baker and the ham is also good. Would you like a piece of pork? I give you! And I’ll give to you in willingly...»
LUCINDA PILOTO (82)
Pitões das Júnias, MONTALEGRE
2'13'' June 2011
TWO OLD LADIES REALLY OLD LADIES Pitões das Júnias
«Oh my dear pretty girl,
From Amarante blows the wind.
A girl, who speaks to all
Doesn´t wish to get married.»
MARIA DIAS CARVALHO (left)
«The flower of the wasteland
Blossoms the rose whenever it wishes
It´s like the single man
While he hasn´t got a wife.»
MARIA TERESA (right)
PITÕES DAS JÚNIAS July 2006
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