I am a Brazilian artist currently living between Brasília, Brazil and Los Angeles, California, creating paintings with locally sourced natural pigments. My work examines memory, place, and the emotional symbolism of color, using earth based materials as both medium and metaphor.

My practice is rooted in a childhood near death experience that deeply shaped my relationship to isolation, impermanence, and the unseen. Through soft, atmospheric surfaces and ethereal spatial imagery, I examine the intangible qualities of memory and emotion and the thin line of tension between presence and disappearance.

My journey begins in nature, where I forage landscapes in search of pigments hidden within stone, soil, plants, bones, and insects. Each material is gathered and slowly refined by hand into artist grade pigments and paints. Shaped by geography, season, and serendipity, these handmade pigments carry an inherent unpredictability that I have learned to embrace. No two colors are ever truly repeated.

I believe the Earth holds its own form of memory, and through the meditative act of extracting pigment, I give shape to the cycles through which memory continues to echo across land and self. My pigments become a bridge between the physical landscapes I inhabit and the internal landscapes of memory, longing, and transformation.

I often think of my practice as one continuous meditation. The process of foraging and refining pigments is both grounding and devotional, allowing me to further connect with my Brazilian heritage while surrendering to the natural tendencies of the materials themselves. This dialogue between control and release mirrors the cycles of nature and allows each painting to develop organically.

While the refinement of pigments follows a careful structure, my approach to painting is one of surrender. By slowly layering and burnishing each surface, I allow the colors to settle, bloom, and breathe naturally. Each work becomes a singular record of time, place, material, and emotion, and serves as an intimate reflection on presence and impermanence.