\n[A God] created the Sun
\nThere are thousands and thousands in the middle of the dark
\nCreated the water, the wind, the life on the planet
\nThat\u2019s why you can not be afraid of darkness.
\nDarkness is the mother of the whole universe, including God.
\nDarkness does not choose anyone.\u201d
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Photo: Veronica Pinheiro<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The following dialogue opens the way to the second Ways of Knowing Workshop, tought by Selvagem for the House of the Children:<\/p>\n The doctor's office was covered in layers of black fabric, kindly installed by teacher Wagner, making it our laboratory for images and sounds. The workshop was about the Sun and the relationship of life it establishes with the Earth. The word \"relationship\" will appear written or implied in all the diary entries, and it won't be by carelessness. The workshop, more specifically, was on cyanotype, a handmade photographic process created in the 19th century that uses iron salts to produce blue photographic prints. The room provided was initially for preparing the chemicals, sensitising and drying the paper in the first stage. And the sunlight was needed to print the images. The room then becomes a place to think about the things we feel when we are away from the light. For the children, light means good, a good thing; and darkness means bad, a bad thing. Between light and darkness, Euro-Christian-monotheistic thinking has created fixed distances filled with fears.<\/p>\n A escolha das oficinas \u00e9 um grande apanhado de inquieta\u00e7\u00f5es. Buscamos atividades em que a natureza seja protagonista. E nos concentramos para que o protagonismo n\u00e3o se confunda com utilidade ou recurso. Cuidamos para que ningu\u00e9m pense que usamos a luz do sol para revelar fotografias. N\u00e3o usamos a natureza, somos seres compartilhantes. Diante do sol os corpos dan\u00e7am \u2013 o corpo da \u00e1gua, dos humanos, das plantas, dos sais. De que nos adiantam atividades onde h\u00e1 uma ebuli\u00e7\u00e3o sinest\u00e9sica, que, no final, s\u00f3 gera prazer aos humanos e ofende \u00e0s \u00e1rvores, \u00e0s \u00e1guas, \u00e0 terra?<\/p>\n Photo: Wagner Clayton<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Antes da oficina de fotografia artesanal, conversamos sobre os textos que a luz do Sol escreve na terra. Falamos sobre escurid\u00e3o (de onde sa\u00edmos todos), sobre fotoss\u00edntese,\u00a0 foto e\u00a0 s\u00ednteses. Tr\u00eas textos foram compartilhados com os alunos da escola:\u00a0A vida do sol na Terra<\/i>\u00b9,\u00a0Iori descobre o Sol<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Tayn\u00f4h<\/i>,\u00a0Ho Sham\u00eah Tahe<\/i>. Um v\u00eddeo sobre o Sol foi exibido. Pintamos o Sol em tecidos de algod\u00e3o; tecemos raios solares para pulseiras; fizemos registros fotogr\u00e1ficos; sensibilizamos pap\u00e9is no laborat\u00f3rio escuro. Com qual objetivo? Despertar mem\u00f3rias solares.<\/p>\n School builds forgetfulness. For years, I woke up before the sun, arrived at school very early and returned home just as the sun was setting. I worked at school and taught about the things of life. At that time, I was so far away from the sun that my body forgot a lot. I hadn't learnt how to sweat or produce vitamin D. My body lacked sun.<\/p>\n If school builds forgetfulness, we tell stories to awaken the senses and the memories.<\/p>\n \"If you struggle to find the way, ask my son Kuaray, the little Sun, and he will know how to guide you.\"1<\/p>\n In dialogue with the Guarani myth, we learned a little about Kuaray, son of Nhanderu'i. We talked about walking and listening.<\/p>\n The mother of the Sun stopped listening to the Sun at some point because she became furious when she was stung on the finger by a huge bumblebee.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Photo: Wagner Clayton<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The little suns in front of me wanted to speak. I paused to listen to them. Those were silenced narratives. At that moment, I understood a little about their relationship with me and with the school. Some children without a mother, many without a father, having to be a Sun shining alone on Earth. Children aged between 5 and 7 talking about the guardianship council, abandonment and their desire to be a Sun.<\/p>\n Na leitura de\u00a0Iori descobre o sol<\/i>, de Oswaldo Faustino, na verdade \u00e9 o Sol que descobre Iori. Em Iorub\u00e1, Iori quer dizer \u201ccabe\u00e7a que voa alto\u201d. Exercitamos imaginar quem era o Sol e o que ele fazia na Terra. No final dessa atividade, recebi v\u00e1rios s\u00f3is pintados e nomeados com nomes femininos. Sorri e falei alto: \u201cVoc\u00eas aprenderam isso com os Macuxi?\u201d. \u201cWei\u201d significa \u201cSol\u201d. Sony Ferseck me disse que, para a cultura do povo Macuxi, o Sol \u00e9 uma entidade feminina\u00b2. As crian\u00e7as entenderam o exerc\u00edcio de pensar em outras formas de ser e estar no mundo. Pensaram no Sol como quem alimenta as plantas todas as manh\u00e3s e disseram: \u201cO Sol \u00e9 m\u00e3e\u201d. Eu sorri. Nunca tinha pensado nessa possibilidade. Conflu\u00edmos. Meus pequenos companheiros de jornada iluminaram mais uma vez meu caminho na Pedreira\u00b3.<\/p>\n From this book comes the sweetest sentence I've read all week: \"The sun dreamed of dawning\".<\/p>\n I dreamt of the sun and we headed to the last reading and workshop.<\/p>\n Tayn\u00f4h, Ho Sham\u00ean Tahe, o menino que tinha cem anos<\/i>, \u00e9 um livro polil\u00edngue (Puri, Guarani Mbya, portugu\u00eas e espanhol) de Aline Rochedo Pachamama (Churiah Puri). A leitura foi r\u00e1pida e generosa. Fomos guiados por uma \u00e1gua doce e profunda, conversamos sobre n\u00e3o plantar esquecimentos.<\/p>\n During this meeting, we systematised all the stages of cyanotyping. After explaining everything that was going to happen and the results we were going to get, I skipped stages and broke agreements. The class followed the teacher in the dark room, and later in the Sun. But the impressions didn't come out on paper. Let\u00edcia, aged 10, remarked: \"For things to happen on earth, all the elements need to be present. You sensitised the papers with water. You didn't use salts. 'Everything happens in presence', right?\". \"Yes. Everything needs to be present, Leticia.\"<\/p>\n Vitor, aged 10, concludes: \"So let's go back to the dark and start all over again\";<\/p>\n We started again. And when we put the papers in the sun, without skipping steps or absences, the sun wrote in blue on the papers. There were our blue photographs, depicting the leaves we had picked in the backyard.<\/p>\n\n
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