Igapó Vase

Jacqueline Terpins

Igapó is one of the vegetation types found in the Amazon rainforest, characterized by flat terrain along the Rio Negro that is periodically flooded. Due to the scarcity of nutrients in the water and soil that compose it, igapó forests are extremely fragile environments. The Igapó vase, an intact body that breaks and tears, brings to crystal the memory of tree trunks that suffer from the action of water and the natural scarcity of flooded sandy terrain. A record of the low degree of resilience of this biome.

Available for sale only in Rio de Janeiro.