Disheveld Nature

In 2012, when I was studying at Ar.Co (an art school in Lisbon) Miguel Branco, who taught there at the time, suggested that I do line drawings, in a Moleskine, using plants as models.
So I did. I bought the large sketchbook, with yellowish paper and black hardcover and I began drawing.
I used graphite pencil, coloured pencil, sometimes a nib, and I even used a very thin brush.
Eventually I thought about sewing. The first drawing didn’t come out very well because the thread was very thick, but that was an easy detail to correct.
Later I wanted to increase the scale. “Go bigger” like my father used to tell me when I was doing my little tapestries (that’s what I called the works I did with fabrics and yarn).
I began working on Fabriano Artistic 300 grams paper and I often used thread, as well as some collages.
Drawings with yarn have the particularity that, when you turn them over, a new image appears and so I called them “Reversible Drawings”.
I named this series “Disheveled Nature” and I showed it at an exhibition with the same name in 2013.