The Descarrego da Escuta appeared during the process when I was investigating rituals. “Ritual forms an indispensable part of the experiential basis for our cultural metaphorical systems. There can be no culture without ritual”. (Metaphors we live by)

The residual expressions made me look more carefully to this aspect of creation. Each process lived in Grupo Oito had a different ritual, that was created and performed to achieve the state we desired. It was also following the necessities of the particular creation. Each day, the way how to enter the space, the technique used to prepare the body, the awareness of what we would discuss and the healing knowledge to keep the continuity was a coherent set of activities.

We would sit in circles and give each other one leg to massage. Each foot was touched and filled with arnica oil. Each articulation released and activated. The trigger-points of the calves and legs pressed until they got dissolved. The experience to know each other from the touch, to understand the pain and release what is holding ourselves to perform. Moments of silence and reflection over the thematic of the work and also time to elaborate our own chaotic mind turbulence. Rituals to enter the stage, looking on each others eyes, generating energy inside the circle. Caring of each part of the day, preparing the lemon with water to wake-up in the morning and the onions on the soil of the feet to sleep.

The same way, I felt the necessity to study of how to use objects and the metaphorical aspects of it to create the ritualistic layer of this research. Descarrego da escuta is a hard term to translate, but I would say it is a discharge of listening.  Descarrego is name used by afro-brasilian and brasilian religions to clean spiritual energy. At this moment of the process my necessity was to listen to space, people around me and offer to the city energies of gratitude. The transformation of the glass bottles was a transition from the Limit (previews research) to the Metaphorical-Conceptual Map.