O (des)fiar das memórias: sentimentos, gestos e vozes de artesãs idosas uberlandenses

Abstract

In the intersection of gestures, voices and feelings of the art crafters ladies of Uberlândia, this Master degree work analyses the meaning of experience impregnated in the know-doing of the manual work, in which it is presented a net knitted by the subjectivity and by the esthetics. Through the narratives of 16 ladies, unfolds the memories entwined of forgetting ness and reminding that color with intense and live colors the telling about learning and creation process of their handcrafted pieces. In this experience, it is presented a net knitted by the subjectivity, by the esthetics and by the constitution gestures of doing and thinking. Among with the doing and the learned and the apprehended by the sight, there are also the gestures of: doing, remembering and hands and body. The memory and the know-doing are ways followed, in this research, by these making ladies of manual objects in the search for life meaning and, by that, remean their growing old. Situated far away from the measure of time, the passing of years finds itself in the image that each person draws in the comprehension of the feeling ageing.