"My creations are somewhat instinctive. Organic. Wild.
Ideas come to me as i go. Sometimes all i need to start is a specific color or texture i'm falling for that moment.. "
ARTIST STATEMENT
As a Brazilian American artist, I create sculptural fiber works that draw from the arid sertão of Pernambuco and the coastal landscape of the Salish Sea. These distinct environments—marked by scarcity and abundance—inform both the material language and conceptual grounding of my practice.
Using galvanized steel wire and natural fibers such as raffia, I construct suspended forms through a process of wrapping, knotting, and binding. Each piece develops intuitively, guided by tension, balance, and the physical behavior of the materials. The resulting structures evoke a quiet interplay between strength and fragility, containment and expansion, often suggesting bodily or vessel-like forms.
Rooted in a slow and tactile approach, my work considers how repetition and transformation can hold memory and register time. I am interested in how materially driven abstraction can create space for stillness, reflection, and embodied experience.
I am currently extending this practice into larger-scale installations that engage more directly with space and perception.
ARTIST FEATURE - PBS
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Born in Pernambuco, Brazil, I was raised in the arid sertão landscape, where an early awareness of material resilience and adaptation took shape. After relocating to the Pacific Northwest over two decades ago, the proximity to the sea introduced a contrasting sensibility that continues to inform my work.
I began my creative career in Seattle as a swimwear designer, developing an understanding of structure, tension, and the relationship between material and body.
After moving to Port Townsend, I shifted toward a fiber-based practice, creating sculptural forms through the wrapping and knotting of natural fibers over steel armatures.