under the surveillance of ancient animals

  • Dates
    2013 - 2016
  • Author
  • Topics Landscape, Fine Art
  • Location Portugal, Portugal

Is a project based on the place where I was born and where I grew up.

Is a project based on the place where I was born and where I grew up. It works as annotations of my return to this fulcral period of my life, the memories that I have and the way I feel this place now after many years away. The space is changing, but also my relation with it, and this is that interest me.

This place appears to me now as a place mute, serene, where there’s no time, it is stopped, apart of the rhythm of the world. People and a primordial connection to nature. Empty paths, silent houses and the animals as the last guardians of a home.

© Maria Oliveira - footprints, ponte de lima, portugal
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footprints, ponte de lima, portugal

© Maria Oliveira - white horse, ponte de lima, portugal
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white horse, ponte de lima, portugal

© Maria Oliveira - ducks, ponte de lima, porgual
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ducks, ponte de lima, porgual

© Maria Oliveira - horses, ponte de lima, portugal
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horses, ponte de lima, portugal

© Maria Oliveira - old kitchen, ponte de lima, portugal
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old kitchen, ponte de lima, portugal

© Maria Oliveira - cocoon, ponte de lima, portugal
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cocoon, ponte de lima, portugal

© Maria Oliveira - field scene, ponte de lima, portugal
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field scene, ponte de lima, portugal

© Maria Oliveira - man going home, ponte de lima, portugal
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man going home, ponte de lima, portugal

© Maria Oliveira - first sun, ponte de lima, portugal
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first sun, ponte de lima, portugal

© Maria Oliveira - my dog, ponte de lima, portugal
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my dog, ponte de lima, portugal

© Maria Oliveira - old woman resting, ponte de lima, portugal
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old woman resting, ponte de lima, portugal

© Maria Oliveira - horse and flies, portugal
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horse and flies, portugal

© Maria Oliveira - branches, ponte de lima, portugal
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branches, ponte de lima, portugal

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