Josette Spiaggia

Acrylic on canvas, in August 1990, dimensions 64 x 49 cm.

Table executed on the ground remained unfinished.
Promontory Portuguese maritime defense, traditional fishing boat in Bahia.
Barra is the "St. Tropez of Brazil Salvador de Bahia.

Acrylic on canvas, 1990, size 57 x 67 inches

The coconut, the coconut fruit, which grows abundantly in the tropical climate of northern Brazil, is consumed daily by the Brazilian population. She was picked when it contains a lot of liquid milk and a thin layer of flesh to be drunk with a straw after breakthrough.

When no more milk but thick white flesh, it gives rise to quantities of food preparation and extraction of cocoa butter that goes into the manufacture of many products.

Acrylic on canvas, 1990, size 66 x 51 cm.

The straw hut and all the furniture are made in Brazil from the tree to do everything, coconut. It is the permanent home of fishermen, enough back due to tides, the fishing boats remain at anchor in the shelter of a coral bar.

Grilled fish, crabs and lobsters, cassava, coconut milk, rum and beer produced by the maceration of plants in jars of rum, are the staple diet of the fishermen.