Around twenty years ago, the question of space representation and the constitution of a particular place have been the backbone of my artistic production. If, at first, the existing space between the sky and the mountain was the main focus of my drawings, engravings and paintings, with time this perspective started shifting and made the sky the scene protagonist with the mountains as a solid, robust base to anchor the celestial movements. These representations were constructions usually made from a distance, an observation of the landscape from a broader relationship with the surroundings, being it the city of Rio de Janeiro, at the escarpments of the Basque Country or in the middle of the Chapada dos Veadeiros.

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In the years that passed, a new gaze has settled, one that got closer to the ground, to the tiny little details, registering each event in lines, stains, and dots. The series "projeto para desenhar o chão" (project to draw the ground) took about two years and concluded when I went through the same routes from the journeys high up, from inside a plane, recurring to visual memory only. Walking and being part of the landscape as I moved became the point of interest in these new representations, and then choosing the bottom of the river was an almost obvious path to take. During two seasons spent in Cavalcante, countryside of the state of Goiás, the Rio das Almas, which crosses the town, caught my attention and became the scenery of three new series of drawings: the Rio das Almas, Cavalcante GO series, which goes beyond the observation and the representation of what is real. In them, water takes over the sky in the construction of reflections and duplicate things and duplicating the world, surrounding us in a unique, dreamlike experience.