On the cover of the book O tempo entre os nossos dedos [Time Between Our Fingers] (Sto. Tirso, Idioteque, 2024), by Manuel Andrade, a drawing by Gracinda Candeias presents us with a distorted, trembling, and ambiguous torso—either suspended by or pierced through the back by a wire—as it turns its face away from a point of light so intense it cannot be looked upon. A hand reaches out spasmodically toward this magnetic radiance, positioned in a way that does not correspond to the hand sketched on the volume’s title page; neither hand appears to have a clear, identifiable meaning within established iconographic typologies (whether Masonic or otherwise). Its singularity is enigmatic…
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