Visual Artist, Computacional Artist, Calligrapher, Designer, Biologist, Anthropologist, Scholar, Professor, Researcher and Curator.
This series of works emerged from the reading (or re-reading) of the Diary and Field Notebook produced in a study conducted 37 years ago for the dissertation for a Master's degree in Social Anthropology (UnB/PPGAS) in the Middle Amazon region, which sought to understand the magical healing performed in riverside communities by healers, witch doctors, root doctors, snake healers, witches and sorcerers. All that remained from this research were memories scattered over time, a Diary and a Field Notebook, a bottle/spell bought from a witch in Igarapé Mabari, as well as, of course, a master's dissertation and the resulting title of Master in Social Anthropology. The Field Diary is a personal account of subjective impressions of experiences in the region with the riverside caboclos of the Middle Amazon. The Notebook is made up of objective observations obtained in interviews, questionnaires, spontaneous testimonies and direct observation of the life, places, habits and culture of the Amazonian caboclo. This (re)reading allowed me to (re)organize the data, now from an artistic perspective, for which the main question became: how to artistically represent an ethnographic research carried out 37 years ago? and then, the painting…