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BADILA
For those who know the meaning of the word badila (shovel), they will understand quickly why I named this work so.
Badila is a tool, kind of spatula, which is used to stir coals in braziers. The shovel I took in my hand has the traditional shape that used to have those tools associated with fire, ovens, stoves etc. In the center there's a kind of small hollow or sunk to hold coals.
From this word, it comes the expression "give someone with the shovel on the knuckles" meaning: annoy someone, vex them. Sure if they gave on knuckles, it'll hurt.
I have always drawn my attention to old things. And it makes me wonder how to recreate them. This brazier and this shovel I have borrowed them from a friend of mine and the environment where the image is taken, is placed by the river, an abandoned factory I see all days when I'm doing athletic march.
When I was admiring those nice windows, their old bars, I thought about the day, I would go to photograph the windows, as well as the environment. It was all collapsing and being very careful, I made the shots. In the background, reeds are unmistakable landscape of this area by the river.
Such compositions are a reflection of the person who's making them and his/her inside. Not everyone chooses to dress like someone almost abandoned, to sit in a place dismantled and apparently evaded from the surroundings, just having fun in the heat of the coals and reflexes of flames as the only things that binds her conscience to the world.
I like a lot to make glamorous pictures with red lips and full of mascara, but of those there're many everywhere ... it seems then that women just want to be very beautiful or romantic or mystical, but ...
this image was not aiming at anything of that kind. I just wanted to reflect a state of despondency, almost abandoned.
The woman feels abandoned, and there's a lack of human warmth, seeking warmth in the coals. Soon the pile of coals will lose its strength, meanwhile she's remaining quiet to relax herself with her legs and arms warm, spellbound in sweet sensations.
The friend who loaned me the brazier to make this composition, told me that her parents used it until this last year. Full of coals, they took it with them to their bedroom.
I also spoke with his elderly mother and other women and our conclusion was really that thanks to them, many people have slept hot, braziers had taken away too cold from families, when there was no other means to keep warm in winter.
Well, I just want to add that ... there's little I like as much as to write or to tell which feelings or concerns led me to create a scene or a work.
I like to write about those things as much as making the composition.
Not everyone likes reading, in the photography forum I've joined some years ago, they've thrown me a lot back in my face that I expand writing on what I do, I mean ... to write too much.
There, you can only say technical things or chat lines marked very specifically.
I really do not think photography excludes a free clarification of its author.
They made me feel very uncomfortable, like a pariah or a rare or misplaced person. As if in the end, I have to apologize for something I do not even know what it is.
Usually a typical reaction with what we do not understand: it's to put it aside and isolate.
Well, now I'll have a rest from the photography forum I'll be off and of course !, I'll write whatever I feel about my images or whatever.
Finally, I realize that one reason that drives me to write about the feeling that generated each artwork, where its germ nests ... is that by doing so I can really enjoy it more ... because after it'll become an image to be viewed when desired, but I'm not going back on it anymore.
I know friends who are also dedicated to artistic photography, returning to their works continuously, again and again. I could not do it... I will not go back on it.
So this writing means partly my tribute and recognition to its beauty.
This way I feel is not mine alone, best was described by another photographer friend of mine, when he said, "Laura, if you let me do a confession, it takes me some time to review your work, it's something I do on purpose, and why ?, I commented, I am very attentive to the new that you expose, and look, and look again and tasting it, as if I would say that exudes a subtle magic, so subtle that once the comment is made, it's like cutting the umbilical cord that binds me to the magic and I'm awaiting your next. "
Today I enjoy "Badila" with you ... then I'll cut the cord that binds me to it and it'll be part of all the beautiful things that people create daily, in an effort to retain and capture the beauty around us and to understand better this our world . Today I feel it tied to me, after it will have its own soul.
Date
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
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Author
Laura Marco
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Total images in all categories: 475
Total number of hits on all images: 3,323,251
Total number of hits on all images: 3,323,251
