The artist goes back to the genesis of his piece, Rabeca, and discusses the role played by nature in his work. Born out of an exercise in scriptwriting for the film Água Brusca, the fiddle (rabeca) presented itself as a device that set a dried up river into a flux of wind and dust. Following this initial experiment, the artist tells of his return to his childhood streets, in a small town in countryside Bahia State, where fiddle players played for small change. While looking for additional material for the piece, Dias says he needed to experience the instrument, given the insufficiency of both his own memories and the theoretical writings he found on the subject. On a quest for real contact, he found the young fiddle player Eder Fersant and the octogenarian Dona Dominga da Rabeca, who would later become protagonists in his video. The artist also discusses the role played by nature in his work.
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