Lens-Artists Challenge #361: Looking Back to #20 – Open Sesame: Doors and Doorways
This week it’s Sofia’s turn to host the Challenge, and like Leya in Challenge #355, it’s a ‘Looking Back‘ challenge, where a member of the team picks a subject from a previous Challenge, then makes a new entry on that subject. On her blog, photographias, Sofia writes, ‘let’s go back to challenge #20 called Open Sesame: Doors and Doorways, hosted by Tina [in 2019]’. If you follow her blog, you’ll know how much Sofia loves doors and doorways, they’re always popping up, and as she freely admits, ‘I love doors’.
Where we live, ‘up north’, there are some great doors, especially on the many abandoned and derelict buildings in the neighbourhood. My intention would have been to get up close and record all those fabulous textures in wooden doors or the rust-coated metal doors. But we’re not. We’re holidaying down south, near Lisbon, and frankly, pickings are a lot thinner. It’s not that there aren’t any doorways, of course there are, but a lot of the villas are in small compounds and to see a wall or a steel gate is just not that … interesting.
We’re mostly travelling from our little cottage (in a compound) to the beach and back again, so we don’t see many doors in that respect — unless you count the rough pathway that leads to the beach — through that doorway leads delight (and a great tan). There is one door that always piques my interest. I think the intention was to build a privacy wall around this house, which was renovated several years ago, but after building the doorway and gate the wall was never finished. So it sits there, a door to nowhere. Just as well, too, since the tree visible through the gate is regularly plundered by the locals for the plentiful figs that grow on it. What a loss to the community that would have been.
The door on the side of this house facing the road has always mystified me. Was it intended to be the back door of a house (the main entrance is inside another old gated compound), but why is it so narrow? The door can’t be more than 50-60cm wide.
Finally, the door that would have been perfect for this challenge, on the side of a building that was once one of the best fish restaurants in Meco, turned out not to be a door at all. At least that’s what it says on the plastic sheet covering it.
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