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format 22.86 x 2.54 x 26.67 cm

Bringing together the work of Brazilian artist Kim Poor and the text of art historian Edward Lucie-Smith, Amazonia Imagined is an important and beautiful work that captures the vital link that Amazonian people share with the past.

The Amazon has captured the public imagination for its barely touched and natural sublime, and Poor's artwork encapsulates the magic and colors of that extraordinary region. Her work also creates images inspired by Amazonian mythology, and it offers a window into the world of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon. Smith’s text insightfully contextualizes Poor’s work and draws out its mythological and anthropological connections. The result is an elegantly conceived and executed tribute to these indigenous peoples and Poor’s powerful technique.

It is this quality of belonging that Kim Poor seizes, in a magical series of pictures that have already been widely exhibited in her native country. She fuses her work with the legends of Amazonia to become part of them, an inseparable component of the complex Amazonian matrix.

The paradox is that she chooses highly technological means of doing this. An extremely demanding medium - glass and pigment - fused, with ferocious heat, onto steel. Once fired the glass particles cling firmly and produce colours of astonishing depth and translucency.
Kim Poor is looking for a way of finding true, durable equivalents for the colours and textures of the Amazonian rainforests and for the shimmering hues of the creatures that inhabit them.