themossthief

[themossthief]

Black Chain

I live in Serra Negra, Brazil. Roughly translated, it means Black Mountain Range, or, in my words, Black Chain.

It’s a small town (25.000 inhabitants), full of italians and dominated by a lebanese oligarchy.

For many years I thouged that that’s all you could learn about this place... But recently I started to discover that it hidde many secrets. Strange and dark secrets. Things I that all the serranos (Serra Negra dwellers) never speak about, and you only hear if enter in a close circle.

I’m just pointing that out because all my pictures are taken here, in Serra Negra. And that’s because I’m fascinated for this place (not just for it beauty, but also for it history), and consider it important that you remember always that this is not a ordinary town. Strange things happened here. And maybe still happens.

This put the images in persperctive.

[themossthief]

Many people lose the fascination for being alive. Eat, sleep, breathe... Nothing matters, if there are no pleausure and beauty. It’s just a rough experience, that only make us tired.

In my case, I just found my fascination again. Not because fascinating things started happen to me, but because I began look at my surroundings with child’s eyes.

The first secret I can teach you, if you don’t learn it already : the beauty lies in our eyes. If you have fascinated eyes, they will feed your soul with beauty in any place, in any situation.

Because beauty is out there. It’s waiting.