It's something I don't cease to admire: Mountains made of rock, with more stones than grass, and yet some people could turn parts of such a harsh territory into a terrain of culture and a place to live. Each of the stones that make up the walls, houses and other buildings, often without any mortar, is one of a kind, a monument of effort, a work of art embellished by time, a planet for thousands of tiny beings. It's one of the things that I most like to paint - on the paper, of course, not painting the stones themselves!
É algo que não cesso de admirar: Montanhas feitas de rocha, com mais calhaus do que ervas, e no entanto houve quem conseguisse transformar partes de tão agreste território em terreno de cultivo e lugar para viver. Cada uma das pedras que compõem os muros, as casas e demais construções, muitas vezes sem qualquer argamassa, é um exemplar único, monumento de esforço, uma obra de arte embelezada pelo passar do tempo, um planeta para milhares de minúsculos seres. É das coisas que mais me agrada pintar – no papel, claro, não as próprias pedras!
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I find that stone buildings always seem to be part of the landscape in a way that brick or concrete ones don't. I expect that it would be the same for mud buildings. They seem to be connected to the ground they're standing on.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Keith. Stone and earth, two of the traditional building materials in my country - one in the north and the other in the south - are being often replaced by concrete and brick in many places, and these look always invasive and out of place, even when painted or disguised with a "typical" look.
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