Brazilian Oxcart with Sugar Cane Woodcut Print, ‘Oxcart’

A man smokes his pipe as he leads a yoke of oxen down a country road. His cart is filled to the brim with freshly-cut sugar cane. Standing in the wagon, his son guides the animals in the warm tropical sunshine. In the past, the ox-drawn cart was the main means of transportation of goods and people in rural areas of Brazil. Ivan Borges depicts the scene using the woodcut technique to create this naif image in black and white. br br Titled “Carro de Boi” in Portuguese.