J. Gafarot's photos

The winner takes it all. COMMEMORATE suggests that an occasion is marked by observances that remind one of the origin and significance of the event.

Viseu, Sé

Happy Sun and Happy Day to all my Friends and Visitors.

Floating ties by Joana Vasconcelos. Vasconcelos was born in 1971 in Paris, France. Her family returned to Portudal in 1974.She studied at the Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual in Lisbon.In 2009 she received the Order of Prince Henry. Vasconcelos exhibited at the 2005 Venice Biennale where she included A Noiva (The Bride), a 20 ft. high chandelier made of over 14,000 OB Tampons. In June 2011, the installation "Contaminação" opened the group exhibition The World Belongs to You, held at Palazzo Grassi. In 2012, Vasconcelos showed her work at the major annual contemporary art exhibition in the Palace of Versailles. She was the first woman and the youngest contemporary artist to exhibit in Versailles. In 2013 the artist represented Portugal in a solo show at the country's pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The work "Trafaria Praia" was installed in an anchored boat and at the same time a floating art gallery. In 2018 Vasconcelos presented the retrospective exhibition "I'm Your Mirror" at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, in Spain, having been the only Portuguese artist to accomplish the honor. The exhibition comprised 30 works representing 25 years of her artistic career. In 2020, Vasconcelos created a massive site specific work, "Valkyrie Mumbet" at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design Museum (MAAM) in Boston, MA. This exhibition was her first solo show in the United States. The work is part of a series of large scale pieces the artist creates for specific spaces, in homage to inspiring women connected with that location. This particular work honors Elizabeth Mumbet Freeman, an enslaved person in Massachusetts who sued to win her freedom. She lives and works in Lisbon.

Bragança

It is very sweet, believe me !

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a 1958 American drama film directed by Richard Brooks. It is based on the 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Tennessee Williams and adapted by Richard Brooks and James Poe. The film stars Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Judith Anderson, Jack Carson and Madeleine Sherwood.

Fence A barrier, railing, or other upright structure, typically of wood or wire, enclosing an area of ground to prevent or control access or escape. Happy Friday to all of you.

Starting from the Town of Gurue one can take a car to the bottom of the mountain and start hiking up the big path. Tea plantations and beautiful mountain tops everywhere you look. If you do not feel like climbing to the top you will after approx 6 km find a beautiful waterfall at 1000 meters above sea level. Mount Namuli is the highest peak in the Zambezia Province at 2,420 metres above seas level. Scanned from Kodakchrome II during 2011.

Almeida is a fortified village and a municipality in the sub-region of Beira Interior Norte and the District of Guarda, Portugal. It is located in Riba-Côa river valley. The town proper has a population of 1,300 people (2011). in an area of 517.98 square kilometres The village lies 7.2 kilometres west of the border with Spain and straddles the N332 road. The town's castle fortress was completed in 1641 and is located to the north of the village whose access is through the two tunnel gates and dry moat named the Portas de São Francisco.In and around the environment of Almeida, evidence of Human occupation can be found back to the Bronze Age and Iron Age. Evidence has also been found of Roman occupation followed by the Suevi and the Visigoths. The first fortification constructed in the settlement were constructed by the Muslims who occupied the village until Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula. It was during this time that the current name was first used, in the form of the Arabic al-Ma'ida ('the plateau').

Good night . . .

Welcome 2022. This Sea is my Snow.

The Atlantic.

Sorry this winter's been so bad you were genuinely ecstatic about a rodent not retreating into its burrow. . . . Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, Lisbon

On the wild. Scanned from 1973 Kodachrome II film, Zeiss Contina II

Casal Frias.