As Time Passes

Isabel Minhós Martins & Madalena Matoso

There goes time: ticking and tocking and passing by…
And we get carried along too, passing through all sorts of things along the way.
Time changes us. It changes the things around us. It transforms everything.
And with time, we come to better understand these transformations too.

Press voices

“(…) Isabel Minhós Martins and Madalena Matoso put their heads and pens together again with “Com o tempo”, a beautifully illustrated book which reflects on everything that changes as the hours go by, from a fringe which gets longer to a rubber which gets shorter (…) Over the years, it’s true, the pages of some books go yellow, but there aren’t many which will manage to stand the test of time and ages like this one.” Ana Dias Ferreira, Timeout magazine

“Isabel Minhós Martins reminds us that “the skin on our hands gets wrinkly” (…). Madalena Matoso draws some aged hands about to thread a needle. (…) If the words are suggestive, the images are more than expressive and go beyond what is said. It’s almost always the way with Planeta Tangerina. They started making books for us ten years ago. It’s been time well spent.” Rita Pimenta, Guia do Lazer, Público newspaper

““Com o Tempo” presents situations illustrating duration, succession, cyclicality, transformation and permanence. It’s the philosophical, ontological and epistemological idea of relativity, of eternal return, of inevitability. Using the common sense of everyday experience, text and image combine to create a dialogue revealing a simplicity so complex that we are left with multiple and often paradoxical feelings.” Andreia Brites, O Bicho dos Livros blog