What happens when time stops being a subject and becomes a material?
Detail of Serra Vermelha
I build surfaces in wood and lead metals and minerals through oxidation.
I do not represent the passing of time.
I conduct it into happening.
The image is not applied.
It emerges from the reaction between matter and its surroundings, and each surface becomes an open field that cannot be repeated.
From the studio
Iron, Copper, Bronze, Brass, Nickel, Carbon, Wood.
From the place
Air, Humidity, Salt, Time.
What takes part in the reaction. The metals and the carbon come from the studio; the air, the humidity and the salt, from wherever the panel rests.
I do not paint. I prepare the panel, and the metal decides.