Friday 14 October 2011

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
bringing us that ever present cry regarding '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 about 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 affair', the trinity of spheres?
How many tides before husbandry?

We have been having world struggles since before Promethius passed us 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 exchange 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,
as are the cells in the blood of Man
Blue, the colour of our Planet, mixes with the
Yellow sun
- changing 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 only once been displayed, and its first published image on the web ocurred many years later.

2 comments:

  1. Unforgivably I forgot to include a video clip of a piece by José Mário Branco.

    - I leave you the URL to it below.
    Now more than ever, for those that speak the tongue, present on my mind.

    Have a happy & safe Christmas (please)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olAOazHmn7I

    (Inquietação - by José Mário Branco)

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  2. Nesta época de guerras anunciadas.. e de um Presidente que com poucos dias de antecedência chama as 4 cabeças da chefia militar com carácter de urgência (acompanhem-me por favor neste meu pequeno delírio) pelo receio estatal de se perder todas as forças policiais para o "outro" lado e quiçá - contemplar a imposição de 'lei marcial' com respectivo policiamento das forças armadas (isto não quer dizer que as mesmas aceitem fazê-lo.., mas continuando), ou se está finalmente da hora de haver a anunciada m**** no médio oriente entre Israel e o Irão. Apesar de sempre se dizer que a "mãosinha", na passada era de guerra fria, de um dos lados ser através da Grande Bretanha, que assim aqui na Europa ficava a olhar frente a frente 'o Outro' naquele país dividido que ao deixar de sê-lo voltou a... Espera, comecei a divagar. Ia dizer que de facto, quanto a mim, a verdadeira "mão", imposta após verão quente de 75, éramos nós aqui, com as nossas ilhasinhas no mar. O mundo é outro, bem sei, aquela guerra acabou há décadas e décadas mas, as ilhas mantêm-se, o pacto foi à vida mas a NATO não, e nós........ pois. Nós não vamos saber o que é tal reunião entre os tais chefes, e o PR, mas um coisa digo; quase que prefiro o prisma da "lei marcial". Até porque mesmo sabendo que os que ainda mexem e fizeram o 25 de Abril, em 74, já sejam poucos, não quer isto dizer que os actuais estejam com vontade de ser o chicote da Alta Finança, e os governados por eles, contra o povo que estes mesmos se dizem, e juraram, defender.. A ver vamos........

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