Tension of the dough, tension of the room, attention.
White sheets, white walls, white dough. The whiteness of things highlights the virginness, have we interrupted a religious ritual?
Going to work in grey sweatpants and white ankle socks. Always slipping off her heel and adjusting.
Starts with a handprint. Stretching, resting, bubble also stretching, yellow thinning into 0.05mm thin white. Once dry, Sandra cuts half moons.
We need to talk about the wound.
The wound and calling it wound, it felt like a wound.
I saw the beginning, exponentially growing, stress.
Isabel throwing cloths on the quickly spreading fire, preventing it at a distance.
Carmita and her butter feather. She saves feathers from her own flock of ducks, to replace her tool as needed.
55 years making the exact same pastry. She would look at the sheet, make different cuts, but the end product was always identical. Human Tentúgal machine.
Next to these century old convent sweets in the pastry case you can also choose to buy a brownie. Are brownies sustaining tradition?
-Luísa and Fran thinking together about Pastel de Tentúgal-
