Barão Reports – The House

Barão Reports – The House

The house is simple, in the real sense of the word, simple as sand waiting for tides to get washed or under a burning sun. There are no additions! The walls stand solid against the bleak of the day,

their skin enjoys the touch of a hand, a leg, an eye exploring its whiteness dimmed by wood twisted shutters, inviting for meditation while the body vanishes into plenitudes of salted water. The floor, made of antique terra cotta bricks, feels like a permeable membrane connecting us to the ground.

The rooms are small. My bedroom has a huge bed which fits the room. No door, no nightstand, just the bed. I enjoy it a lot! Lying on this bed and looking into the light that comes through the single slim window opposite to it. The window stays always open, with the blinds half shut; works as a sound box, collecting every little sound generated in the close neighborhood, to be reinterpreted in the shadow of the moment.

Once we bought a bench, all wood and rustic like, strong. There was no place for a couch, so this seemed like a real alternative. We placed it in the biggest room and in the warmest nights we move it outside so we can enjoy a fresh breeze.

It seems this bench used to serve the slaughtering of the pig.

© 2014, José Eduardo Coelho