TE19 Iberian Adventure

Gonçalo M. Taveres

Humans OK. Lemon tree OK, orange tree OK, and bougainvillea OK. White wall OK too.

22 May

Statistics and a tree, obvious clash.

In its shade, numbers seem to be an invention of the news from a parallel world.

Thursday, Ascension, isdayof thecorn inPortugal, I amreminded today.

Too late.

According to tradition: morning walk to collect ears of various cereals and flowers to make up a bunch.

From the village they’re telling me that, yes, the morning did exist, but the morning walk did not.

Masks on faces and I think about the artist Orlan.

Consecutive plastic surgery operations changing her face.

Her reference point was classic paintings.

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