clothes Tag

BLOGME TENDAL DCXXIII: Basic

I was always struck by the basic clotheslines. They are almost always women’s, which denotes a peculiar relationship of women with cleanliness and with clothes and with intimacy and hygiene. In this one, there is also something surreal: the clothes looking at each other in the...

BLOGME TENDAL CDXXI: Sea clothesline

The wind from the sea dries, aerates and aromatizes. It has a dosage included, which makes it not excessive but suggestive, in that dose that opens all the appetites and gives willingness to satisfy them all. Hanging clothes up this way you needn’t perfume. Did any perfumer...

BLOGME TENDAL CDXX: A rope with hope

A house is not stones as a clothesline is not clothes: This clothesline is hopefull. This house is under construction. It is not ready for living into, but it already has the clothesline. Covered and airy, sheltered from the rain open to the wind. Whoever hung...

BLOGME TENDAL CDXIX: Folk song clothes-line

Rags do love too Manuel, Manueliño, a túa chaqueta ben cheira, cheira a rosa, cheira a flor, cheira a flor da laranxeira Non hai flor, non hai flor, Maruxiña, non hai flor como a túa e a miña; non hai flor, non hai flor, Maruxeira, non hai flor como a da laranxeira....