No Borders
Mixed media installations
Muséu de Orienté, Lisbon, 2016
My mother and my grandmother believed that, if you have a snakeskin in your wallet, money would flow in endlessly. I could never understand why they could believe such a story since they always had snakeskins in their wallets but they never had enough money. The only explanation I could think of was that they enjoyed carrying the beauty of the snakeskin with them. Also, there was the mysterious knowledge that the snake had shed its skin and gone somewhere they couldn’t know. It might have represented freedom for them.
Skin protects what’s inside. It separates inside from out. It vibrates in the light. Sometimes it disguises what’s inside. Still the surface is the expression of the inside. I want to tell stories about what is on the other side of the skin so your eyes can see. The difficulty is I must use the surface. It is only our mind that can see beneath.