"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 citizen and native Brazilian, pride is a big thing for me personally. 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 things that makes us soft and fragile aren’t typically elevated, praised, or highlighted, but yet there is beauty in fragility. Part of plexiglass’s beauty is transparency. Its transparency emphasizes its fragility, like a 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-- from point A to point B and back again to point A.”

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