Pruning Bougainvillea in Rio De Janeiro
by Ray Brown
A narrow balcony in a Rio favela is drenched in flat noon light, where a woman in a faded floral blouse tends to a dense patch of bougainvillea spilling over a zinc railing. Her hands, stained with soil, grip a pair of heavy pruning shears to trim the thorny vines, while a simple ceramic pitcher rests on the concrete ledge nearby, catching the diffuse glare. The scene is cluttered with the lived-in reality of vertical living: tangled laundry lines crisscross above, and the bright pink flowers contrast sharply against the rough, unpainted plaster walls. In the background, the dense, layered geometry of neighboring shacks stretches toward the hazy horizon, showing the tight, vertical nature of the neighborhood.
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