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Memories and Uncertainties

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"Memories and Uncertainties" by @MarcosPalhano/@olhodobturador/@marcoslpalhano There is an instant when time doesn't move forward - it just breathes. In the blue frame of an old window, open as if it were a crack in the soul, rests a lady. Her white hair, tied back with simplicity, tells of a lifetime gone by. Her skin is scarred, her hands perhaps resting on her lap, perhaps braiding something invisible. We don't know. Her head is down, but her presence speaks loudly. This woman doesn't look outside - or perhaps she looks inside. The interior of the house seems to envelop her like the silence that precedes a deep thought. Between the shadow of the room and the soft light coming in through the window, a scene of contemplation is drawn, or perhaps of waiting. What is she waiting for? The weather, the late afternoon, a memory that comes to visit? Perhaps none of these - perhaps she just inhabits the now with the density of someone who has seen a lot and has therefore learned to stop. The blue of the window is almost a character. Intense, vivid, perhaps already peeling slightly. It contrasts with the pure white wall, as if there were a border between the world outside and that small, intimate world of the house: vibrant, but peaceful. Blue guards, protects and also reveals. There is something deeply human about this image. It's the moment when life slows down, when the body rests, but the mind perhaps wanders. Memories and uncertainties - as the title says. The woman carries both. They can't be seen, but they inhabit the space between her and the world, between her and the camera, which respectfully observes. Perhaps she remembers someone who has already gone. Or she wonders how much time there is left. Or she's just there, simply being, without the urgency of meaning. That too is wisdom. The photographer doesn't invade, he just observes. And he invites us to do the same: Stop. Look. Listen with our eyes. Because sometimes it's in a moment like this, apparently banal, that life reveals itself in its entirety - full of silences that shout, lights that embrace, and windows that show us what is most intimate in others: their stillness. "Memories and Uncertainties" Photoethnography 3216 x 2136 9,11 MB PNG Memories and Uncertaities @MarcosPalhano16 @marcoslpalhano Tiradentes - MG March 2012

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