Lisbon, Museum of Natural History, 2017.
While I was doing an Artist Residency at Mart, which is a Space for Art Experimentation, we were invited to work with the collections of the “Museum of Natural History “. The pieces created will be displayed at the Museum. The room which I found most attractive was the one which contained Ores. Maybe this was because my grandfather was a Mining Engineer. I followed and traced with pencils the lines drawn by the stone’s concavities and hollows. I also used thread, as I had been using on my last work. I worked with small sheets and as the drawings were coming out of the paper, I added more sheets and I joined them all with thread. The drawings seemed to be floating and they have an obverse and a reverse. Once, while I was creating one of them someone said to me — ‘It looks like a map!’ I now had a name for them – ‘The Cartography of the Stones’.
