A trip to São João Batista and Canelinha

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 Canelinha, distant hills, oil on card, 16.5 x 18 cm

Canelinha, trees, houses, oil on card, 16.5 x 15.5 cm - unavailable

Canelinha, factory, oil on card, 16 x 16.5 cm  available

 Near São João Batista, settlement, oil on card, 16 x 18 cm  - available

São João Batista, view west, oil on card, 15 x 19 cm - unavailable

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A trip to Major Gercino

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Major Gercino: a garden seen from a bridge, oil on card, 18 x 16 cm- unavailable

Major Gercino, River Tijucas, oil on card, 19 x 16.5 cm - unavailable

Between Major Gercino and São João Batista, oil on card, 22 x 18.5 cm    AVAILABLE

 Between São João Batista and Canelinha, oil on card, 18 x 16 cm

Sometimes when I am in the interior I feel a terrible sense of lostness: the country could so easily just swallow me up in its immensity. 

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São João Batista

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 São João Batista, road out of town, 15 x 12 cm - available

São João Batista, early evening, oil on card, 14 x 12.5 cm

These are the product of a drive from Florianopolis via Rancho Queimado to São João Batista.

It is not the most charming of towns that I have been to: the locals seemed surly and there was nowhere pleasant to eat.

 Perhaps I should have stayed in nearby Novo Trento, the Italian colonized city, where I might have least got some decent pizza (along with a sizable dose of Catholicism) but I think that generally as one approaches Joinville the landscape becomes increasingly suburban and less dramatic and the people duller.

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