Nazareth’s long walks question the notion of boundaries and the global scale. In Ipê Amarelo, the artist repeats the act of circling the Tree of Forgetfulness several times, which he did in L'Arbre d'Oublier. Located in Ouidah, which was once home to one of Africa's biggest slave trafficking ports, enslaved men were forced to circle it seven times in a rite meant to erase their memories of the past. The performative gesture, a poetic attempt at rewinding history, is repeated by Nazareth here around an ipê amarelo (golden trumpet tree), the national symbol of Brazil.
