Nanukah
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I believe that every image heights hides a story, and every story is a blueprint for a new reality. My  work lives at the intersection of visual arts, literature and music. With eight published books and over  a two decades of experience in a visual storytelling, I explore how art can be a bridge between the visible and invisible and  a journey, that always will guide my creative process.

THE BEGINNING: ROAMING THE GARDENS RUY BARBOSA’S MUSEUM

My journey into art did not begin in à classroom, but in the historic gardens of Ruy Barbosa’s House in Rio de Janeiro. At the age of six, as an illiterate frequent visitor to libraries boy as I was described by Professor Francisca Maria do Nascimento Nóbrega in her 1984 doctoral thesis, I debuted as illustrator, and I received my first artistic name — Nanuka — bestowed upon me by the librarian and Rudy Barvosa’s biographer Domingo Gonzalez Cruz.