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José Batista Aragão was born in Tarauacá (AC) 73 years ago, and at 6 he already used to go to the rubber plantations with his father. Today, he works at the Chico Mendes Park in Rio Branco. There he shows visitors the trees and the cuts made to extract sap, and exhibits the animals he moulds in smoked gutta-percha, a little known technique. He has been making this work for 40 years, moulding forest animals in sap in a work he says is “very important, so young people won’t forget what they look like”. |
