Eurides

Eurides comes from Cayin o Clim - the Nivaclé community here, but he moved to Paraiso about 70km from here two years ago. He stays with relatives now for the duration of the workshop. He is currently unemployed, but he draws a lot and I hope he'll be able to sell more soon, since he is one of the most creative minds here. His work has movement and variety. He draws hunting scenes, honey gathering scenes, traditional dances, children playing games, garden work, Nivaclé myth's and so much more. His work is usually very fine and detailed and while he is very interested in the printmaking process, I got the impression he struggles a bit with the boldness and perhaps coarseness of the woodcut. He is still getting used to thinking in the reverse, i.e. the line he cuts will be white in the image unlike a line drawn with a pen. Nonetheless, his work is beautiful.

He made great progress today with refining his printing, such as rolling on sufficient ink and rubbing with the spoon long enough for the ink to transfer properly. The ink coverage is getting more solid.

May 18th, update. Here is an image of Eurides earlier piece of a Nivaclé myth about the love story of a girl and a jaguar. As mentioned earlier, Eurides struggles with thinking in reverse, i.e. that the line he makes will be white and not black like his pen drawings, so things seem to look different than he envisions them.