Black and White: Ruins

The shadow of oblivion is accompanied by the ruins that haunt the past. How many memories were erased, how many teachings were forgotten, how many societies fell into the abyss of ostracism. Those travelers crossed the sea, they brought the sign of death. Under the symbols of the sword, cross and disease. They dissimulated populations that flourished on the other side of the oceans. The global era began. History is monopolized by the oblivion of the people who were defeated, a long journey and left traces of erased civilizations. The ruins left to inhabit our imagination. Small specter hit by the intolerance and greed of those who cross the sea. The globe began to be traced, the navigation tools helped the journey: astrolabe, compass, rose of the winds, locked the meridians and parallels.

The story of the impossible, the inversion of the characters' roles, the conqueror being conquered, the conquered being the conqueror and a narrative of the impossible is born. The first act is the search for the wisdom of sailing, which is hidden in the ruins where ghosts live who keep the knowledge of the sea and its locating tools. In a cemetery full of grimaces and the forest guard the unknown temple of sailing.

Ruínas is the first piece in woodcut, made in pau ivory, from the series A narrative do impossivel, produced in 2014, this series was dismembered, many matrices both of woodcut and metal engraving disappearing over the years. The series was fully documented and registered by the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Minas Gerais.

Matrix size. A3 (29,7 x 42 cm), printed on rice paper.