Author Archives: thetorzorean

I EMBARKED on a very long journey of self-discovery in July of 2000. It was meant to be only a holiday in Ponta Delgada, with perhaps a hint of nostalgia for the city where I had been born, and where … Continue reading →

WHILE TRAVELLING during the month of September I made a conscious decision not to read emails, blog posts, text messages or news. In that time, I experienced a heightened level of disconnection from all methods of communication and that suited … Continue reading →

It’s October and there are days when the sun still shines warmly on my body as I return to sit in my garden after a month’s absence. Since my last post, when I wrote about the joy of staying in … Continue reading →

Dragonflies resting in my garden Lay down my camera,                                                                … Continue reading →

August light covers my garden like a sheet of yellow cellophane. It then fades in fleeting moments, only to return again, in a game of peek-a-boo between sky and earth. And then, perhaps bored by the game, the light goes … Continue reading →

I was born in Sr. Borge’s house, on rua da Arquinha, in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Açores. I lived there until the age of two, so it’s not probable that I remember its orchard of banana trees (bananeiras), figs trees … Continue reading →

My Summer Garden © Emanuel Melo In summer, I like to fill my sketchbook with pastel pencil drawings of my garden. I have kept a child-like quality to my drawings. It’s as if, when I move the pencil on the … Continue reading →

The house where I lived in Ponta Delgada, showing an azulejo of Senhor Santo Cristo I meander up and down the streets of Toronto’s west-end neighbourhoods, where many Portuguese came to settle decades ago, and I look for signs that … Continue reading →

Joaquina Pires has brought her 2017 exhibit, Fil de Tendresse/Fio de Ternura/Thread of Tenderness, from Montreal to Toronto, where it opened on Thursday, June 6, at the Peach Gallery to a room full of people, young and old, who came … Continue reading →

Foto da Agustina Bessa-Luís que tirei quando estive em sua casa no Porto em 1984. Hoje, dia 3 de junho, morreu a grande escritora portuguesa, Agustina Bessa-Luís. Desde o dia em que ela acolheu-me em sua casa, com um sorriso nos … Continue reading →