Brazil's Cerrado
Get to Know the Cerrado
Brazil’s Cerrado is an enormous savanna that includes tall grasses, tough, twisted trees, shrubby forests, and canopy forests along streams. Although its beauty is perhaps not as apparent as that of the Amazon, look closely and carefully, and its allure becomes ever more apparent. That gnarly tree over there produces the succulent and brilliantly colored cashew fruit. An anteater is napping somewhere in the middle of that tall grass to your right. Up high in that palm tree, a flock of macaws rests and chews on palm nuts. Keep looking and one encounters hundreds, if not thousands, of edible and medicinal plants and fruits. Rife with flowers like orchids and bromeliads, waterfalls, and endemic mammals, birds, reptiles, and insects, the Cerrado is a unique and precious biome.
Salto de Corumbá | 16"x20" | $400
Poço do Saci | 16"x20" | $250
Corumbá de Goiás | 9"x12" | SOLD
Source of the Spring | 20"x30" | SOLD
Jardim de Maytrea | 26"x36" | $1,500
Bromelia do Cerrado Goiano | 18"x18" | $300
Flor de Lobeira | 4"x4" | $50
Gabiroba | 6"x6" | $100
Caju em Fundo Azul | 10"x10" | SOLD
Cajuzinho do Cerrado | 8"x10" | $180
On a Hilltop in Goiás | 9"x12" | $200
Seriema | 9"x12" | SOLD
Onça Pintada | 16"x20" | $300
Arara Canindé | 12"x12" | $270
Tucano Toco | 11"x14" | $270
Coruja Buraqueira | 11"x14" | $250
Lobo Guará | 12"x16" | $300
Cacique Bird | 8"x10" | SOLD
Tamanduá Bandeira | 12"x24" | $350
Via Láctea en Pirenópolis | 16"x20" | $300
Below is a poem I wrote after three (3) years of frequenting a place in the Bahian Cerrado called Chapada Diamantina (Diamond Plateau):
Chapada Diamantina
The Brazilian hinterland
the brilliant wonderland
the Never-never-land
the sparkling diamond-land
the wild water-land
the Diamond Plateau-land
mysterious reflections and refractions
cave pools turned turquoise
with the fingery rays of god
liquid rainbows in misting waterfalls
a sparkling stream over a mosaic rock-bed
moist stone cities lost in time and space
somewhere in xique xique cactus wilderness
spirits of the world
butterflies, hummingbirds,
woodpeckers, and fairies
darting in and out of
dripping ferns and dewey moss,
orchids, bromeliads, and lichen
secrets of the Bahian cerrado
crista de galo
alma de gato
buceta de fada
meganina
sempre vivo
candéia
Old souls and new
sharing stories and secrets
on the gurgling trails of the
resplendent plateau
and in the cobbled colonial towns.
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