J. Borges: Woodcut Print Artist from Bezerros, Pernambuco |
At kilometer 106 on the Luiz Gonzaga Highway (BR 232) stands a whitewashed building called the “Casa de Cultura Serra Negra.” Dank and cluttered inside, with its roadside location, it is reminiscent of an auto mechanics shop. For decades it served as Borges’ atelier and now houses children, nephews and cousins who followed him into the chapbook business. Borges has found new digs. Roomier and with better lighting, it still could pass for a simple country home. Visitors can purchase chapbooks, prints and original woodblock molds by a multi-talented artist whose work has been featured in exhibitions at places like Zurich’s Helmhaus Museum. Scholars point to Borges’ work to help explain why Brazil maintains a vibrant woodblock print tradition. Visitors to the workshop can get a glimpse of a vintage mechanical printing machine and, if they’re lucky, see the artist at work carving his next mold.
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Fishing in the Amazon with Pepper and Flávio |
BrazilMax’s Bill Hinchberger joins a fishing expedition in the Amazon.
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Lajedo do Pai Mateus, Paraíba |
The Cariri region’s awe-inspiring landscape, strewn with granite boulders, is compared to Lajedo do Pai Mateus, Paraíba
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Brazil on Horseback: A Journey Through the Serra Gaúcha |
When in gaúcho country, BrazilMax does as the gaúchos.
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Serra da Abelha Ecological Reserve: Locals Protect the Forest |
Before it became fashionable to wed the interests of the environment to those of the poor, the members of the little community of Santa Cruz dos Pinhais had established a de facto barrier to logging by defending their homesteading rights as small subsistence farmers. Their battle continues.
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A Trip to Lídice Brasileira |
We came upon this speck on the map, about 600 meters above sea level, and 40 kilometers or so inland from the Costa Verde, in the midst of spectacular mountains. Lídice Brasileira.
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