At the end of the aqua duct in what is now known as Ilha Grande State Park there are a series of tunnels that in the forties were converted to isolation cells when the island served as a federal penitentiary.  These caves are more than graffiti stages. The cruelty of these cells is that they were located at the tide line and in the words of the historian showing us around, when the high tides occurred they would flood the cells.  The dark mess of the history lesson is that inmates drowned.  The resultant deaths created a series of family shrines remembering the lost.  The cruelest blow to the island was imposing the federal penitentiary in and Alcatraz like way!  The graves are marked with steel shrouded shrines.

All this super and supra structure has roots in the 1893 construction of the aqua duct at the Abraao Stream headwaters. This structure built to serve dutch farms in the fertile valley.  The stones were mortared with sand and whales oil with slave labour.  The structure still stands in the island jungle.  Flashbacks to earlier times expose cruelty and imperialism.  The Portuguese and in this islands case, the Dutch dominated the indigenous inhabitants with promises and bullets.

Between the caves, waves and graves there is this recurring image of an answer to homelessness of culture, obsolescence and entropy.  The early adopters of change tend to rave about the latest idea, fad! The dislocation caused by the marches of time leave the settlers of every culture behind and the complaints supersede attempted compliance.  There is a new awareness in change.  The antidote adopted by homeless fishermen might have a lesson.  Fishermen in local communities sailed the seas from beach to beach.  The requirement to have a permanent home by governments and other agents of red-tape was burst like a bubble by the creation of the one-dimensional house.  A door to the waters and winds of time. This example might stir some revolutionary views of community