Set of 2 Framed B&W Brazil Woodcut Print on Ceramic, "Weekday and Weekend"

The work week is arduous on a farm in Northeastern Brazil. As dawn breaks, everyone is busy at work in this naif portrait by Ivan Borges. The cow is milked, chickens fed and water fetched from the river where an industrious young man is fishing. Everyone gets an early start to avoid the midday heat.

On weekends, there is time for recreation and perhaps romance. Stars come out as dusk turns to night and townspeople gather in the square for an evening of music and dance. An itinerant trio accompanies them in the cool tropical night. Ivan Borges depicts couples dancing in a town in rural Brazil.

Borges transfers the woodcut images to white ceramic tiles and frames each one. Titled "Amanhecer na Fazenda" and "Forró na Fazenda" in Portuguese.