regardless of ones interpretation, the creative individual and the work they produce is not frozen in time, and it is not a defined thing pinned to a board to be studied. arte popukal is alive and well rio, living breathing kicking and screaming each day.

without abandoning the legacy of small group traditions, folk artists in the city of rio de janeiro participate and express simultaneously in their art, the changes occurring in their midst, which they enrich with their self expression, and the complexity and depth of their collective experience - whether their work is of a useful or purely aesthetic nature.