Number - and The Common Factor(s)

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."


(ON NON-VIOLENT ECONOMICS)
"Economic equality is the master key to non-violent independence...A non-violent system of government is impossible as long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists....A violent and bloody revolution is a certainty one day unless there is a voluntary abdication of riches and the power riches give and a sharing of them for the public good....All
have not the same capacity...I would not cramp talent...I want to bring about an equalization of status.... "

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"o Protesto" (Laocoön -The Protest) - by Guida Almeida, 2001
(photographed by Sandra Ramos)

Laocoön and his sons pacing the streets of Ilium, warning...


(text in English & Português)


as I dip into the river of time
wading back and forth, swaying
watching Multidude speak
telling me of the ever present cry of 'the end of ages'
- but I ask you, what is the end of ages?
Each day is quantumly an end of ages,
each eternal picosecond placed on a slide can be disected,
so what of it?
How many tides must there be before
understanding that the harbingers of death and destruction
are but demons in the minds and hearts of Men?
More than a pair of Third World Wars lay Ilium to rest
yet still came Rome to share at least an other pair
Punic and Servile.

How many treaties of Todesillas,
Reforms, Counter or any other kind?
What of the end of the early bankers in
their white mantles and red crosses?
Did it mean the seas could no longer be crossed?
How many eclipses did it take to see the the affair, the trinity of spheres?
How many tides before husbandry?

We have been having world struggles since before Promethius passed his blessing.
The world has ended so many times I've lost count.

Predictions? Almost as many.

So what if that world whence the first Stock exchage appeared in
(exactly four centuries past)
comes to a halt.

We've revolted and ended worlds since the dawn of Man's existence.

Hello my name is number.

( Maria MFA Costa )






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Artigo 21.º
Direito de resistência
Todos têm o direito de resistir a qualquer ordem que ofenda os seus direitos, liberdades e garantias e de repelir pela força qualquer agressão, quando não seja possível recorrer à autoridade pública.
~ in Constituição da República Portuguesa

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The Red and White are the same,
such as the cells in the blood of Man
The Blue, the colour of our Planet, mixes with the
Yellow sun
- changes it's hue..
with each revolution..
"Eppur si muove"
(full and/or hemi)Spheres next to spheres

If we're not to be torn assunder
we should learn to swim
together
in a fraternal sea of justice.

(- the question is, can we? )

So many flags, so many painted: Red, Green, Yellow, White, Blue.. so many..
so many..
So many labels, brands, excuses..
How many...
(?)

( Maria MFA Costa )

image in "public domain" - presently unaware of author, published in books prior to 1923

Death of Spartacus (III Servile War)

(XV & CVI century, Portuguese, Caravel Ships )

The symbol of the first bankers on the sails of ships - Red Templar Crosses

De Beurs by Hendrik de Keyser

opening of 1st Stock Exchange - 4oo years ago - in 1611

ab Ovo - IV by Guida Almeida - 2002
(photographed by Sandra Ramos)

painted in early 2002..
(too much to say, to say in words)
For diverse reasons this painting has never been displayed, and its first published image on the web ocurred many years later.