About the Authors

ARTUR SGAMBATTI MONTEIRO Artur is a painter and an environmental manager, who portrays everyday life and its dilemmas and believes that art is a key means to strengthening human relationships. He depicts the history, the land and its people with the use of traces and colours. His purpose is to add subtleness to our realities, making challenging contexts easier to grasp and more understandable for those far away. Building up a better present moment is also related to its nuances and subtleness.

VLADIMIR OSPINA RODRIGUEZ Vladimir has a degree in architecture and is also an illustrator. Vladimir endeavours, through his works in several foreign territories, an understanding of the various strategies of anthropization.

TRACES OF A RIVER

Travel Book

The Mariana tragedy, which led to the destruction of several lifes and villages as well as the entire Doce River, is presented here from a unique perspective. A few weeks after the occurrence Artur and Vladimir travelled the distances between the mouth of the Doce River and the disaster site recording through illustrations the life of the people, the environmental impacts, and their general impressions.

Traces of a River is an account, and an affective mapping, of one of the worst environmental disasters in Brazil, and reminds us of the connection and responsibility we have in relation to the surrounding world. It is a tool to raise awareness and visibility of rare subtlety.