After the appropriation of Rugendas’ drawings (where the German artist and traveler depict Brazilian landscape), numerous reproductions (photocopies) of these pictures are made until its disappearance. All the images were used for the stop-motion animation.

FARAWAY FROM HERE _ Video /  2:23 minutes

Rugendas drawings are some of Brazil’s first representations, and it is still a reference in our image of a tropical Land. How could these representations be thought nowadays, after some many years of European colonization? Could these images be resituated toward a contemporary Brazilian imaginary of a tropic land? How could a re-appropriation of the Brazilian imaginary take place beyond the idealization of a tropical Land?