All the posts in this "Logbook" are testimonies of activities that are part of an initiative, frankly, a bit crazy! Crazy in the best sense - crazy like a kid who makes a spaceship out of an orange with scientists discovering new planets where beings live who daydream, cook from community gardens, and slow their pace to rejoice when they hear a woodpecker in the neighborhood or see a cat lazing lazily in the sun.
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In the space between the Masca theater buildings (yes, there are two of them, and they hide many fascinating nooks and crannies, with all sorts of props, reading spaces for actors and, above all, plants!), I found a vanilla orchid! A plant from south-eastern Mexico, it's the only orchid to produce edible fruit.
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"It's hot. It's hot! I feel the warm air in waves when someone walks by." A thought from the field notes on my first visit this summer to the Masca Theatre's set warehouse, together with students from the Recycling Workshop, held by architect-scenographer Gabi Albu, as part of the Helix project for Masca - cultural and community center.
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After two days of work in the Masca warehouse, the participants of the Recycling Workshop led by architect Gabi Albu exchanged their drills, hammers, and work gloves for pencils, sketchbooks, and SketchUp, a 3D design and drafting program. Days spent working on garden furniture design are spent in the theater library. The music coming from a Bluetooth speaker partially covers the clicks of trackpads; between songs, you can hear pencils clutching the textured paper of sketchbooks.
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"Masks", "flanks", "practicable", "butec", "hinge on a nail", "counter-venting", I have a lexicon in formation in my field notebook, gathered from the first day of the workshop. On the way to the warehouse, on the second day of the workshop, Ilinca, one of the participants of the Recycling Workshop, patiently answers my questions about the terms of her trade, especially those related to the main object used in the workshop - the practicable, also called "masked".
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