gringa en sampa : fragments

Once upon a time a young woman went to Brazil for a short, short time and fell in love with life...

a great many other things had happened that day, but when I finally arrived at the pinacoteca do estado museum in sao paolo, I took my time sketching and looking. Of particular interest were the works of Lasar Segall, a Lithuanian Jew who studied art in Berlin, lived in Brazil for a time, returned to Europe where the country seared itself into his subconsciosness and surfaced in all of his paintings. He later returned to Brazil permanently and became one of its most celebrated artists.

The lesson: Once you go to Brazil, you're never the same!