{"product_id":"yara-caiman-negro-poster-mate","title":"Yara · Black caiman · Matte poster","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-short-desc\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatte art print of Yara, the black caiman and music producer in Manaus. Giclée on matte paper. Five sizes. Made to order. Unframed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- LONG_DESC --\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## A portrait that listens\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe matte poster of Yara enters a room the way she enters the main armchair in the studio: without leaning the body forward, without seeking attention, with the quietness of the black caiman that waits without growing impatient. It's eleven forty-seven at night somewhere in the portrait's inner time. Yara has spent forty minutes on the same second of a master and hasn't moved a fader. The matte paper holds that scene on the wall as if it were a photograph stolen from inside a mastering booth: the cream bomber open, the clean white ribbed-knit sweater, the thin gold chain falling silently on the neck, the gaze that doesn't smile for the camera because it doesn't need to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome prints shout. This portrait belongs to the other family. It works as a quiet archive that organizes the room around it, the same craft Yara practices at Estúdio Igapó when a band comes in with too much noise and she simply turns down the monitor until the silence weighs more than the conversation. Hung at home it does the same. People who walk in lower their voices before they know why. The black caiman portrait asks nothing, only holds, and the room settles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## The matte paper and amber light\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 189 g\/m² matte paper, with no glossy or satin coating, absorbs light instead of reflecting it, and that changes how this portrait behaves depending on the time of day. In the morning, with natural side light, the cream tones of the bomber and the white of the ribbed-knit sweater stay calm, almost photographic. In the afternoon, with overhead light, the gold of the chain is emphasized without shining. And when the room is lit with a warm lamp, what happens in the control room at Estúdio Igapó happens here: amber enters the scene, the portrait becomes more intimate, Yara's gaze moves a meter closer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe technique is Giclée printing with pigmented inks, resistant to time, on paper selected to reproduce skin, fabric, and metal without falsifying them. The portrait is signed by Yago Partal as part of Animal Kinhood, the series where wild animals appear dressed as adult people with a history. Yara is number thirty-six in the universe: an Amazonian black caiman, music producer, thirty-three years old. The piece arrives ready to hang, unframed, in five classic sizes that fit any wall without forcing the buyer to redesign the space around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e## Where to hang this poster\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt works well where Yara works: in rooms where sound matters. Above the desk of an amateur home studio someone sets up at weekends, next to the console in a small professional studio, in a narrow hallway of a flat where someone listens to vinyl with care. In a living room with a big bookcase, sitting below a shelf of technical audio books. In the office of a veteran musician who works from home and understands what it means to have the grave presence of a cream bomber held up by a broad-shouldered black caiman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt works well on neutral walls — off-white, light gray, natural wood — because the mustard-cream palette of the portrait (the muted yellow of the bomber, the soft gold of the chain, the beiges of the background) needs little competition to come through. On dark walls it works differently: it needs a larger size and a bit of air around it. On exposed brick it gains texture and integrates with the material's grain. It works well in series. Grouped with other [unframed Animal Kinhood art prints](https:\/\/www.yagopartal.com\/objects\/) it forms a coherent wall where each character contributes its own temperature and the whole thing breathes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomeone building a home gallery can think of this piece as the bass note of the mix: it stabilizes what's around it without competing for the treble. As a gift it works particularly well for people who work with sound — producers, engineers, amateur musicians, radio journalists, podcasters — because the portrait acknowledges their craft without underlining it. The full story of Yara, with Estúdio Igapó, the work of music production in Manaus, and the Educandos neighborhood, [lives in the character's biography](https:\/\/www.yagopartal.com\/animal-kinhood\/yara\/) for anyone who wants to know who's looking from the wall before hanging it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yago Partal Studio","offers":[{"title":"12″×12″","offer_id":57713150329157,"sku":"1943438_4464","price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"18″×18″","offer_id":57713150361925,"sku":"1943438_6242","price":55.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1052\/7830\/8677\/files\/yara_ak-paper-000.webp?v=1776697296","url":"https:\/\/checkout.yagopartal.com\/products\/yara-caiman-negro-poster-mate","provider":"Yago Partal · Studio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}