“Years ago, while travelling through my home country of Brazil, I could see and observe the existing cultural diversity here. I really looked at people’s characteristics and facial features to examine what a “racial mixture” might be.

I researched my own background and discovered I have Japanese and Spanish descent. The foundations of Brazil and its culture are made up of small portions of the entire world.

The Brazilian way of life and society make this explicit; you see the miscegenation through the music, the beliefs, the culture and the gastronomy. I then began connecting a number of events from past to present situations: multiculturalism, slavery and cannibalism. The main character trait in Brazilian culture is miscegenation, reflected in everything we do. In many situations the present mimics the past, which will end up repeating itself in the future but in a different way. The colonial slaves no longer exist yet slavery still exists in the contemporary. Nowadays in Brazil we do not eat human flesh, as some indigenous tribes did in the past to give them their enemy’s qualities, but in contemporary society there are other cannibalistic ways that take advantage of the enemy’s skills. “Tropical Miscegenation” presents all of this; miscegenation in its purest form.”