On the spot Architecture

One may have an idea, a concept about how things will happen, but wrapping the body itself becomes a purely instinctive act. 
Enveloping, and the manyfolds of a material cannot be something  that is planned beforehand. 
The first ply tells you what to do next, and so forth. Each fold teaches oneself how to go from there. 
I resourted to the memory of nomad people as well as Indians and Tuaregs, and how they wrap themselves with materials, an in that invocation I built one moment after another.
Here, right at the photographic studio, I was captured with Lucilia wrapping an incredibly beautiful saree, trying to resist to use any of the traditional nine ways to wear it. I hope you enjoy this album published in 1993. 


December 2000
António Conceição Júnior