Jacy - who build the houses , 2020/21

Whit two years and seven months old, Lucília asked me:

 

- Mom, are we going to make houses just like Dad?

- I don't know, Lucília.

- Why?

- I did not study at the school your father went to

- Is it?

- Your father is an engineer. He builds houses, your mother is not an engineer.

- Only men build houses, isn't it? (she was observing many constructions)

- No. Women also do it. Women are engineers.

- Is it?

- It is.

 

Jacy was a woman born in 1930. She was the mother of four children, a PhD in Sociology of Education, a professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and the author of a didactic material that was used in almost all of Brazil. I mix up images and texts of my grandmother amalgamated with other records and more recent creations, composing a dialogue between the two of us and between times, bringing the figure of this possible woman, who builds houses, careers, family and dreams.