Resonating Moments
Importância desses momentos são a partilha de experiência. O saber ouvir o público, e passar a mensagem para entre todos nós entregarmos e criarmos a arte.
The importance of these moments is sharing experience. Knowing how to listen to the public, and pass on the message so that we can all deliver and create art.
(Filipa Ferreira, 2024)
The importance of these moments is sharing experience. Knowing how to listen to the public, and pass on the message so that we can all deliver and create art.
(Filipa Ferreira, 2024)
Out of the blue, the retired fisherman gave me a hand-made fishing chart, drawn from memory. These were family secrets plus 70 years of trial and error and nights at sea. For me, it was treasure. Days earlier, we had collaborated in a session inspired by fishing. I reacted to his ego, his arrogance with the elders, but also to his friendliness with the children when making a fishing longline. He must have sensed that, despite our different paths, we shared the obsession for the sea and all about it.
(Jorge Santos, 2024)
(Jorge Santos, 2024)
After we had worked with the fishing hooks I asked the young people if they would like to paint. 'Yes!', they shouted out. 'Do you want to paint with your fingers?' - 'Yes!!!' they shouted even louder. Suddenly I found myself with five children and Arthur around one of the four tables. We start with two colours, yellow and metallic blue in addition to white and black.
Some of us moisturised their hands immediately with the painting, others used more carefully their fingers. Arthur started to paint a person, and being asked later, who this could be, he answered that he painted himself, a fishermen. We all looked what the others were doing and got inspired by the creative decisions that where made around the table. There was a high level of intra-action between people, colours, music, canvas, movements and more. We changed and adjusted constantly as the actions around us changed.
(Lilli Mittner, 2024)
Some of us moisturised their hands immediately with the painting, others used more carefully their fingers. Arthur started to paint a person, and being asked later, who this could be, he answered that he painted himself, a fishermen. We all looked what the others were doing and got inspired by the creative decisions that where made around the table. There was a high level of intra-action between people, colours, music, canvas, movements and more. We changed and adjusted constantly as the actions around us changed.
(Lilli Mittner, 2024)
I remember the moment when we started to paint with yellow and turquoise on a big, white canvas. After a while we stoped talking and came into a flow. I forgot time and space and it felt as if everyone around the canvas was present and at the same time fully absorbed in the creative activities. We were together in the colours, on the canvas, with the music. We sensed each other and the materials, simultaneously becoming with and alongside each other.
There was one women who caught my attention. She seemed to be highly concentrated on what she was doing. There was a beauty in this moment that I find difficult to express with words. I was listening to the music and experimented with the consistency of the turquoise acrylic. Absorbing everything that happened around the canvas, I tried to translate what I felt into the painting.
( Lilli Mittner, 2024)
There was one women who caught my attention. She seemed to be highly concentrated on what she was doing. There was a beauty in this moment that I find difficult to express with words. I was listening to the music and experimented with the consistency of the turquoise acrylic. Absorbing everything that happened around the canvas, I tried to translate what I felt into the painting.
( Lilli Mittner, 2024)