As both symbolic representation and material object, the artwork encompasses a profound mystery: it gives visibility and meaning to what is, at the same time, pure illusion. In this sense, the artwork and the artist merge into a single scene—like light and fire, indistinct as they perform the transformation of elements.
The observer of this scene is unaware of the true nature of the phenomenon presented, yet may be astonished by its effect and consider real what is, in fact, magic. Magic is the transformative action that emerges from the will to become the artwork the artist is compelled to fulfill.
The effect generated by the arrangement of colors or forms in a piece, which draws the observer’s attention, opens up as an experience within a reality that, on the material plane, is nothing more than paint on canvas or skillfully carved stone. However, the artwork is the lived experience of representation—one that the observer stages within their own interiority. The image reflected in the observer’s mind sustains the ineffable will that radiated its enchantment through the artist, requiring no mediation, as the image enters the life of the one who sees it. Observation is the magical passage, and also the path toward the knowledge of the elements—their physical and metaphysical properties, the body and soul of Nature, which ultimately exalts and immerses artist, observer, and artwork in expressions of Human knowledge.
The path opened by this passage leads to multidimensional encounters—sensation, feeling, ideas, and inspiration—a full cosmos where the needs of Human expression merge. Within need lies the original will, Human Nature itself, which assumes presence in the time and space of an artwork, telling each person a story aligned with their own longings and perceptions.
Artists are works in progress, just as life itself is, and thus we are all traversing segments of the creative space/time continuum—whether in a memory traced on a cave wall millennia ago, in an ancient monument, or in a luminous image on a screen. All are forms that connect to Humanity, pointing to the same need: the search for the Self.
Personally, I have walked this path through Nature, experiencing Art as it reveals itself while endlessly projecting into Mystery—a will without a defined origin or end in time. Having become aware of this process, I welcomed the task of bringing something unconscious from this experience: a very ancient, ancestral meaning, as well as dream projections that I imagine, in that moment, as possible futures. The art I practice has always been the alchemical mixture of two dimensions—invisible and visible—provoking the contact between realms, from which visions emerge.
Today these experiences belong to the public—they are part of private collections, museums, and galleries, where they reside like the works born from this labor. This journey began in Brazil (MAC, MAM Resende, Museu Olho Latino) and continues across the world, with physical presence in both public and private collections (Europe, USA e Japan).