The booklet of CD SPICES (2000), following the pattern of our
first CD, is a hardcover booklet containing 60 pages of
"pollen-rustic" paper. The iconography in SPICES is based on the
research carried out by Valeria Bittar in the Rare Works Sector
of the National Library of Rio de Janeiro. Four books of
European travelers were filmed micro-filmed that report their
passage through Brazil:
- Gândavo, Pêro de Magalhães. History of the Province of S? Cta
Cross that we commonly call Brazil, 1576.
- Staden Hans. Warhaftige Beschreibung eyner Landschafft der
Wilden nackten gimmingen, menschenfresser leutenen, in der newen
Welt America gelegen, 1557.
- Monardes, Nicola. First and second and third parts of the
medical history, of the things brought from our West Indies,
serving in Medicine, 1580.
- Newe Zeytung von dem Landen das die Spanier mergen haben,
1521, facsimile.
- Copy of Newen Zeytung, 1514.
A fifth book: Waldseemüller, Martin. Cosmographie Intriductio,
1507. was also microfilmed for containing precious engravings of
the earliest representations and measurements of the earth.
With this nuclear material of images, we constructed the
booklet, also using illustrations from the books:
- Montalboddo, Francanzano da. Paesi novamenti Retrovati et Novo
Mondo Albertus Vesputio Florentino, 1507.
- Vespucci, Amerigo. Letter to Soderini, 1505.
The images were selected and worked together with interventions
on Marcelo Taube 's oil - stained canvas.