Many artists have taken the fourteen stations of the cross as their starting point. However, the contemporary series to which I could refer more directly would be Barnett Newmann’s exhibit at the National Gallery, in Washington, D.C..This work was admirably describved by Nicolas Calas. He said, “At a time  of crisis, no place is the right place; we get times and doubts into motion, we switch positions from left to right and  go back again. From the moment we feel lost, we are in ecstasy and out of place in the Here, even though if still in the Now.”
In Brazil, the most direct and most evident influence upon my work came from the time – seventeen years –  I lived in Amapá, in the island of Santana, on the Amazon River. I believed many of my works as well as many of my concerns for painting refer to that period.