Education enters Studio Ghibli trend and shows how arts would be if they had been done by Hélio Melo

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In recent days social networks have entered a new trend, which consists of turning photos, recreating them into the style of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki, the main mind behind Studio Ghibli, responsible for animation classics such as Chihiro’s trip, my friend Totoro and the animated castle.

Entering the joke, but with a more regional touch, the State Department of Education (See) published a sequence of images with art inspired by the traces of the rubber tapper, artist and writer Hélio Melo.

“No castle flying… Here schools are born in the middle of the forest, between rubber trees and real stories. In place of the magic animals, there are strong students and education throughout the state,” says the caption of the publication, referencing the works of Miyazaki.

Who was Hélio Melo?

Hélio Melo was a plastic artist, composer, musician and writer born in the interior of the state of Amazonas. She worked as a rubber tapper in Acre, a job in which she performed arduous tasks that involved from extraction to the transport of the rubber tappers. Amid this aridity, Hélio Melo found inspiration and references to become a self -taught artist. The uniqueness of his work lies in the portrait of life experiences shared by families of rubber tappers, reflecting the broader situation of millions of Brazilians submitted to centuries of neglect or oppression planned by the state. In seemingly unpretentious paintings, he captures the methodical destruction of the forest while defending alliances among his true guardians.

The Amazonian universe is a central character of its plastic production, which brings numerous references to the myths, characters and woven customs learned in the years when the artist lived and worked in the woods. In his drawings and paintings, he portrays the symbolism of the rubber tapper, marked by learning with nature and indigenous peoples. He interprets the daily life taken by the Amazonian imaginary, highlighting the symbolic dimension of the social and ecological conflicts of the region. His work is also linked to passages of the artist’s life and to facts experienced or witnessed by him.

With Information Almeida & Dale