The paintings from the Sap series are sign-words, that brings natural elements: fire, gold and mercury. They are made by a specialized truck sign painter and represent a popular cultural side. Big, thick, slightly inclined letters write three words meant to be read in distance, by cars after trucks at the roads.

“Mercury”, as the messenger, travelled through São Paulo, Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso, entering the Amazon territory crossing the states of Rondônia and Acre all the way to the city of Cruzeiro do Sul, in the border with Peru and Bolivia. The main way of river contamination in the amazon forest, mercury is used to separate gold nuggets from dirt. In the process, it spreads in the waters and contaminates rivers, therefore damaging water supplies for people and animals.

“Fire, in its raging red letters, has left São Paulo with destination to argentinian Patagonia, arriving at Tierra del Fuego.The photographs registers were made by the truck driver, then mounted in wood plates. In one of them, it reads “polar”. “Polar fire”, an involuntary verse, casual meeting between two significants. Where else did the painting visited?


   

       


“Gold” has left São Paulo, through the state of Minas Gerais, arriving at Salvador. In a sense, it rebuilt the same gold route from colonial period. This same gold still decorates colonial architecture churches, built at that time as a first european inscription in the brazilian symbolic arena.