Hhwind said at 9:18 a.m. on Oct 8, 2008: Wow a grand and beautiful church
Soniacal said at 9:22 a.m. on Oct 8, 2008: as mãos que erguem são as mesmas que destroem...e assistimos a vida que passa com uma lente de olhar atônito...
Eduardo.affonso said at 9:28 a.m. on Oct 8, 2008: Grand, beautiful and abandoned church, TEO.
SONIA: não sei quem é pior - se o vândalo (iletrado, ignorante) que picha e destrói ou se o Estado omisso, que deveria reconhecer o valor do patrimônio que tem para cuidar , e o abandona desta maneira.
Chiloedream said at 9:49 a.m. on Oct 8, 2008: 2 très belles images : beauté tragique d'un bâtiment qui perd son âme. Vestige d'une foi à la dérive. Bravo mon ami.
Leftofcenter said at 10:42 a.m. on Oct 8, 2008: I assume top & bottom are the same building, which confirms "symbolically" (to me at least) how obscure "things" get here on earth (and lower) while the more you look up up up.....................
Ira said at 11:07 a.m. on Oct 8, 2008: Magnificent photos. The heavens and earth not so far apart how it seem?:)
Eduardo.affonso said at 11:41 a.m. on Oct 8, 2008: Merci, THIERRY. I think this building was not the only one to "perd son âme" in this case.
Yes, ANNELIES, it's top & bottom of the same church. I took photos of the entire building, but used only these two ones to emphasize the contrast of the (almost) preserved top (you'll find some grafittis, if you look closer) and the dirty, abandoned bottom.
IRA: I think earth and heaven (or should we say hell & heaven?) are strongly connected.
Chilla said at 12:21 p.m. on Oct 8, 2008: Extraordinary images of the same building! Man can create something so beautiful and yet also destroy and deface that same beauty. Hard to understand but it happens...............
Robya said at 1:00 p.m. on Oct 8, 2008: I think the building is beautiful. I wish they would paint over the scribble writing. Such a shame some people have so little sense of morality or discresion. Blessings. Robbi
Pkeener said at 1:34 p.m. on Oct 8, 2008: I was shocked to scroll down to the second photo!!! It looks abandoned with the boarded up window, but it's not right to deface any property. Now, back to the photos. The second image is amazing due to the woman walking by. excellent tabblo, edu!
Rita.Mandarino said at 1:44 p.m. on Oct 8, 2008: é Edu... Esse descuido com as nossas edificações históricas sejam elas públicas ou privadas, é muito triste. E vc sabe que a gente só acaba notando olhando as fotos.Passa quase desapercebido nessa nossa desordem urbana de cada dia. Será que nosso próximo prefeito vai cuidar disso? Sei não...No mais belas fotos, como sempre.
Eduardo.affonso said at 3:14 p.m. on Oct 8, 2008: CELIA: Things like this make me think we are sort of little Shivas, the hindu god of creation and destruction (may Setu correct me if I'm wrong...).
ROBBIE: It's not a matter of "little sense of morality". It's the total lack of sense of morality.
PAM: These photos were taken in the same day, but the different lighting makes them look even more distant one from another.
Pois é, RITA, nosso olhar já está acostumado a essa sujeira toda (sujeira real, sujeira metafórica), e nem nos damos conta do descaso em que o patrimônio cultural está mergulhado.
Liliana said at 4:05 p.m. on Oct 8, 2008: Otra tristeza... algo habitual y terrible. No entiendo bien: ¿en la última foto, a la izquierda, hay una ventana tapada con madera clara?
Eduardo.affonso said at 4:53 p.m. on Oct 8, 2008: Sim, LILIANA, esta igreja está/estava em restauração. Devem ter retirado algum vitral e ainda não o recolocaram. Isso fica bem perto do Real Gabinete Português, no mesmo centro deteriorado da cidade. Logo ao lado há uma casa belíssima (Casa Franklin), que será objeto de um tabblo qualquer hora dessas.
Candlepower said at 2:45 p.m. on Oct 10, 2008: Not the way to treat a wonderful old church.
AliDar said at 3:00 p.m. on Oct 10, 2008: Not what I was expecting when I at first saw the title, nor when I brought the second shot into view. Crap! - Church of the Most Holy Sacred... apparently not to many anymore, and I pity those who still feel that way; they must feel as persecuted as those who have been persecuted in the name of religion have, and still do. A very provocative Tabblo Eduardo. Excellent use of your photographic skills, and my apologies for not pointing them out; the media is definitely the message here.
Jigs said at 8:26 a.m. on Oct 12, 2008: loved the element of surprise as my eyes transitioned from photo-1 to photo-2... then my mind got that knowing nudge from "on earth as in heaven" ... and the full import of the visuals and the text and the subtext and everything simply floored me! smashing tabblo, edu!
Debdog said at 11:06 p.m. on Oct 14, 2008: WHOA! that grabbed me...sacrilege....can you dumbass on here?
Debdog said at 11:07 p.m. on Oct 14, 2008: oh my, i meant CAN YOU SAY>>as in the the asses who did that!
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