Das Folhas I - Limited Edition of 100 Print

"Das folhas I" is part of a series, which started with the participation in an exposition in Oaxaca, Mexico in 2015, where I first combined leaves with a figurative body. Since then I made a series of six works, all exploring the figure within the leaf, as well as the leaf as a figure as part of the composition and also as the frame for the figure within. The style of the lines is a result of my earlier abstract works, with the influence of the patterns of the Brazilian indigenous. The woman inside the tear-shaped leaf is based on a photograph of a black woman in slavery, which I found in the Archive of the National Library of Brazil.