Ancestral

He no longer trusts anyone and is tormented by the memories of his ancestors being eliminated by greed, forgetfulness and arrogance.

The distrust in his eyes reflects the bitterness of loneliness and the fear of being the last one left inside a cage.

This is the first woodcut that has been created in a rounded surface that has no sides. There are essentially two types of wire woodcuts that are produced on a regular board. I followed the wood wire and the top woodcut where there was no wire, but I could've used other tools. This technique is different from the others, due to the difficulty of finding specific woods and using the burin (burinho) as a tool. The burin is a metal engraving tool. The top woodcut is usually followed by the natural cracks in the wood where the artist tries to integrate imperfections in the wood into their creative process.