“Everyone smiles at the edge of a pool,” he argues Anabel Vasquez, journalist and author. For all of us, almost without exception, those pools of water make us feel some kind of way. Whatever. We can feel calmness, peace, alertness, peace, lightness. A childhood memory. There’s something magnetic about them that drags her around the world for days on end, camera in hand, captivated by those settings and her passion. All these are now reflected in the book Pisinosophy: An Aquatic and Chaotic Treatise on Real and Imaginary Pools (Books of the KO), enabled him to talk about history, architecture, art and travel and, of course, the right we all have to bathe.
“Pools are an infinite field And an excuse to talk about many topics. It’s very oblique,” he says. In its pages we learn that the first public water tank in history was thousands of years ago, in the city of Mohenjo-daro in present-day Pakistan. And the white man’s press room is on top of a house, sad and happy, too. The first private pools – now attracting attention – Ends in California.
There I drew them David HockneyWho Landed at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel’s Empty Tropicana Pool in Los Angeles Marilyn Monroe He posed for his first photo shoot. “The question is whether the municipal approach to health does not take happiness into account,” he declares Los Angeles Method. Are swimming pools synonymous with health? Vasquez is a clear yes.
According to her, this system is not a “capitalist option”. “Everyone should have the right to swim in the pool.Although not everyone has the right to own one. In a climate and culture like ours, Pond should not be the heritage of certain social classes. It is a place of recreation and refreshment. “Administrations should provide all necessary facilities for anyone to take a bath in a public or municipal pool,” he stressed, noting that not everyone can go on vacation, but Heat is common to everyone in Spain.
“In a climate and culture like ours, the pool should not be the property of certain social classes”
He talks about it in his book Spain of swimming poolsWhere George Dioni Lopez The Ned Merrill Index explains: Number of swimming pools per 100 inhabitants. Urbanism creates ideology and “swimming pools a A country model that supports individualism and competitivenessThis leads to dispersed cities, self-sufficient and isolated bubbles”. As data: Spain has one swimming pool for every 37 people.Madrid has only 23 municipal swimming pools for over 3.3 million people, or one public swimming pool for 145,200 people.
Rest is attractive
“I think it’s trivial to have a pond just for the pleasure of looking at it in the morning in this age where water is the last frontier,” he says. That is why it claims to use the pool as a health and sports place, but a Leisure, recreation and socialization. And in some public places to see, people wear light clothes as their bodies and hair are dried by the sun’s power. Although occupying a large city, everything looks bright in a kind of town square.
− The book states that the pool of complutons may be very similar Attractive What is the matter.
– I think so. This is assured not based on science, but based on observation summer after summer. It is a place with 20th century aesthetics Allows visualization of bodies. Also promotes sociability travel. There is sun, free time and leisure, which is very attractive. There is fainting.
A place of equality
It also protects its sides A swimming pool is a space of equality. “What’s outside the pool, but when you’re in the water we all share the same emotions and feelings. We’ve all seen people from all walks of life near a pool. Everyone makes the same little noise when they jump. He repeats the same interruptions of pleasure as he descends into the water.. Although the obvious thing is when you dive. That’s where we’re all the same,” he says.
This kind of harassment isn’t exactly new either. It’s not obsession either. “I discovered that it was a much less pathological and less harmful thing,” he explains. Following the publication of the book, many people wrote to him telling stories about the system. “There is something very primal that connects us to swimming pools because of the need for pleasure, relaxation, sport…”. One woman, for example, told him about the Lancaster project Swimmer, John Sewer) He chooses places in Europe and then he goes swimming in all its pools.
The perfect pool
Its sides include the plunge pool at the SpringHill Suites Miami/Medical Center hotel, the Ocean Club in the Bahamas, one on the roof of the White Towers, or pond Alvaro Sisa’s Des Marais in Porto is one of his favorites for swimming because of its proximity to the ocean, but knowing that “you have everything under control.” See, he stays with Moroccan riads.
But for her, the perfect pool is “simple and defined,” with a tree nearby: “For me, they’re rectangular and unpretentious. I think that’s the purest pool. Of course, I love those crazy pools in Miami, or those pools. They’re on top of a hotel in New York. There are, but I think so A small pool has all the charms“.
At the end of the interview, take a photo opportunity at the pool of the Hotel Palacio de los Duques Gran Meliá in Madrid. Many of them upload them An Instagram account that serves as a display package. Hers doesn’t end there: she keeps sneaking into ponds to feed her cravings, but continues to write about them and learn all they carry with them. “For Dionysus, the pond was politics; for Matisse it was relief; for Hockney, hedonism; for Titian, order; for Cheever, an allegory; for me, I don’t know yet,” he admits. Physinosophy.
