"The beauty of working with or on plexiglass is about the challenge of very often dealing with its fragility. For some, plexiglass is a nightmare, for others, it's a “deep sea”: an opportunity for profound self-reflection. As an American and native Brazilian, pride is a big thing. As an American, I often fall in the trap that I have all the power. As a Brazilian, I do the same when the national soccer team wins. I become a super-man. Aspects of twisted cultural ideologies so often blind us-me- but those that makes us soft and fragile aren’t typically elevated, praised, or highlighted. Yet there is beauty in fragility. Part of plexiglass’s beauty is transparency. Its transparency emphasizes its fragility, like clear glass. At any moment, it can break.

"As I’m making careful holes in the sheet (if there is any break, I have to re-do the entire work), having the courage to enjoy a place of fragility is an opportunity to step back and carefully navigate a thin “sheet of glass” - a place where I can clearly see what is true and what is beyond any opaque surface. Transparency is the aim along the way as I go back and forth from one point to another.”

Point A to Point B and to Point A Again, 2019-2020 

Plastic paint on plexiglass, Suite of 4 sculptures; each 72” x 36” x 6” ft

Work exhibited at Kreeger Museum, Washington DC. 2020