Armando Taborda's photos

--- Shells and Lilacs Farm ---, Lisbon (press z to see in the lightbox)

In our graves we are all beautiful girls. Our skin is falling away like the tide. Our bones are long and slender, all inhibitions gone. We're lovely in the mud that fit boys have dug for a council wage, not knowing how beautiful we lay there like honeymoon brides anticipating sex not expecting death, serene as pawns and queens and home in ourselves forever. //// BELAS RAPARIGAS Somos todas belas em nossas sepulturas. A pele cai-nos como a maré. Nossos ossos ficam mais compridos e delgados, foram-se todas as inibições. Estamos encantadoras na lama que rapazes atléticos cavaram por um ordenado fixo ignorando quão bonitas somos lá deitadas como noivas em lua de mel ansiosas por sexo sem esperar a morte, serenas como peões e rainhas e em nossa própria casa para sempre. by Melissa LEE-HOUGHTON (b.1982, Manchester, UK), in "BEAUTIFUL GIRLS", 2013 (Portuguese translated by Armando TABORDA, 2017) (photograph taken from Internet; edited by Armando TABORDA) (1st edition, 2014; 2nd edition, 2017)

www.ipernity.com/blog/armando.taborda/4655370 (photo taken from Internet; edited by Armando TABORDA)

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(photograph taken from the "Enrollement and Attendance Book", Camões High School, by my colleague and friend Artur Luís ANTUNES - I was 14/15 years old) www.ipernity.com/blog/armando.taborda/4655244

at the Amadora City Park (pess z to see in the lightbox)

Not yet: rain and cold strike again! (Amadora City Park)

www.ipernity.com/blog/armando.taborda/4654468

Cranes at the dock unload goods and I love you. Isolated men walk the avenues and I love you. Electric silences sparkle inside machines and I love you. Destruction against chaos, destruction against chaos and I love you. Bodies reflections are disfigured in the shop window and I love you. Years are getting older in the forgetfulness of warehouses and I love you. The destiny of the whole city is the night and I love you. /// Gruas no cais descarregam mercadorias e eu amo-te. Homens isolados caminham nas avenidas e eu amo-te. Silêncios eléctricos faíscam dentro das máquinas e eu amo-te. Destruição contra o caos, destruição contra o caos e eu amo-te. Reflexos de corpos desfiguram-se nas montras e eu amo-te. Envelhecem anos no esquecimento dos armazéns e eu amo-te. Toda a cidade se destina à noite e eu amo-te. by José Luís PEIXOTO (b. 1974), in "GAVETA DE PAPÉIS", Quetzal Editora, 2014 (English translated by Armando TABORDA, 2017) (photograph taken from Internet; edited by Armando TABORDA)

www.ipernity.com/blog/armando.taborda/238156 (photo taken from Internet; edited by Armando TABORDA) (press z to see in the lightbox)

...but also trees and other beings and objects with roots in earth (press z to see in the lightbox)

In 2012, Florike EGMOND discovered an enthralling collection of 16th century drawings and watercolours of animals, collected by the founding father of zoology, Conrad GESSNER, hidden away in the Amsterdam University Library. (photo taken from Internet; edited by Armando TABORDA)

In our quarter's garden weeds grow among flowers and invade the bandstand where our discontentment is out of tune. /// No jardim do nosso bairro ervas daninhas medram entre flores e invadem o coreto onde desafina a banda do nosso descontentamento. by Armando TABORDA, in "SINFONIA EM DOR MENOR", Edição Escola de Mar, 2007 (1st edition, 2008; 2nd edition, 2017)

Times are changing, wills are changing Being is changing, confidence is changing: The whole world is made of change, Always gaining new qualities. /// Mudam-se os tempos, mudam-se as vontades Muda-se o ser, muda-se a confiança: Todo o mundo é composto de mudança, Tomando sempre novas qualidades. by Luís Vaz de CAMÕES, in "SONETOS" (the four initial stanzas of the sonet "Mudam-se os tempos, mudam-se as vontades") (English translated by Armando TABORDA, 2017)

by António LAUREANO, furniture designer