Birds of Brazil Series

Courtesy of Larissa Xavier

The Blue-And-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) on the guava branch (Psidium guajava). Moth (Elbella azeta), 2018
The Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao), the Metallic Wood Boring Beetle (Euchroma gigantea) and The Cattleya aclandiae Orchid), 2018
The Chestnut-fronted Macaw (Ara severus) on the branch of camu-camu (Myrciaria dubia). Postman Butterfly (Heliconius melpomene), 2018
The Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus) on the Sugar-Apple Branch (Annona squamosa), 2018
Red-and-Green Macaw (Ara chloropterus) and Chlosyne lacinia butterfly on branch of pequi tree (Caryocar brasiliense), 2018
The Blue-Headed Macaw (Primolius couloni) on the Branch of Pitomba (Talisia esculenta), 2018

With his captured images of Brazilian flora and fauna, Marcellus Nishimoto tries to make visible the dangers of extinction. Similar to the first scientists who collected, analysed and preserved the knowledge of nature, Nishimoto conducts extensive research into Brazil’s biodiversity and portrays the rainforest’s inhabitants in their full glory. Birds, plants, insects and other forms of life are thus the subjects of Nishimoto’s paintings, with which he reminds viewers of the biodiversity and the future of these species while the Brazilian rainforest is facing its greatest threats ever.