Green Note Book 2006

Jaime Ponciano's 2006 Green Note Book is an agenda-like book Jaime used during 2006. He didn't necessarily used it chronologically. He didn't write or draw on it on an everyday-basis but sporadically when he jolted down some figures or wrote a piece of his mind off-handedly. It's hard to pin-point whether Jaime used the book chronologically but that is not really important.  

2006 saw Ponciano gravitating around Lilian C. Moraes' abode on rua Dr. Alfredo Elis, 263 apt. 3, Bela Vista, which is a street that comes off Rua Pio XII which is its turn comes off Rua 13 de Maio after it crosses Avenida Brigadeiro Luiz Antonio going up to Praça Oswaldo Cruz. It's a nice place to dwell, and I think Jaime enjoyed its location and general feeling.   

It is clear to see that Jaime was on a good phase (mood) when he started using the book: 'A vida pode ser sempre engraçada. Depende só do seu humor e do jeito que você olha para ela. Eu gosto de dar boas gargalhadas de doer a barriga. Eu tenho saúde saudável.' 

'Start me up' an album released by the Rolling Stones in 1981 was a constant favourite with Jaime.

Jaime in the back of his wooden house on top of a mountain in Nazaré Paulista-SP.

Vitoria Silva

Vitória com dois meses - 16 May 1988.

Jaime & Vitoria in May 1989.

Mauro & Vitoria; Vitoria, her aunt Renata & Rada (who's been cut out of the picture).

Renata & Vitoria.

Vitoria, her auntie Renata & Rada wear Ponciano's shirts...

Vitoria's 6th birthday invitation drawn by herself with a little help from Uncle Jaime 20 March 1994.

Vitoria at her grand-parent's house in Cuiabá-de-Cima, Nazaré Paulista.

Vitoria and her cousin Bebéia aka Rafaela.

Suzana & Vitoria at Jaime's studio in Nazaré Paulista.

Vitoria photographed by her uncle Jaime Ponciano circa 2008.

Vitoria having a little lunch...

Estudo para retrato de Vitoria, Nazaré Paulista, 14 de fevereiro 1998; 'Para minha menina que é uma flor.'

Ponciano, October 1998. 

Rua Paim, 235 (1984 - 1985)

Jaime Ponciano aka Jaime Silva lived at unit # 2012 in a block of flats on Rua Paim, 235 circa 1984-1985. The warrenlike building known popularly as 'treme-treme' (tremble-totter) was affordable housing for a growing low-middle class that found themselves stuck in a recessionist economy that had stopped growing in the early 1980s.

''Edificio 14 Bis', the main building, named after a neighbouring square called 'Praça 14 Bis', was designed by Aron Kogan and built in 1955. Soon after a smaller oval building called 'Demoiselle' following the same curving shape was built adjoining it. It is 499 flats where up to 1,700 people live as if it were an independent city. 

Jaime Carlos da Silva - Rua Paim, 235 / 2012

Rua Paim tenement as seen by Jaime Silva...

Jaime writes to his sister Tati on 25 July 1984.

Edificio 14 Bis - Rua Paim, 235.

Rua Paim, 235.

a different view of the same region...

Rua Paim in 1956.