ABOUT
"Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things,
just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated."
John Berger
I am a landscape researcher, artist, and explorer of silence. A transformative personal and research journey led me to appreciate that, far from being a terrifying void or absence, silence opens a rich field of expansion and possibility. This is a condition of the ineffable, where it is by exposure and slowing down that growth happens, through fractures, in the seam of perpetual tuning in while reaching beyond.
There isn't a word for everything, and drawing, as more-than-seeing, is diving poetically towards that evanescent sense of a consonance, of a lull paradoxically unveiling the unremitting flux.
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Inspired by curiosity about human love for nature, my research sits at the crossroads of academic inquiry and the arts. It derives from phenomenological perspectives to ponder the ever-shifting entanglements of people and landscapes through silence, drawing, and attentive being-in-the-world. This website emerged within the framework of my doctoral research, which evolved as an exploration through silence to contemplate landscape and intangibility via attunement and nuanced lived experience of the world that is both close and faraway.
I obtained a PhD in art history (heritage studies) at the University of Évora, under the supervision of Prof. Filipe Themudo Barata and Prof. Eduardo Manuel Alves Duarte. With a background in heritage studies (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, University of Padua, University of Évora) and landscape architecture (University of Belgrade), I am particularly curious about experimental projects that look into alternative modes of knowing and understanding the world we dwell in.
"Between two musical notes there exists another note,
between two facts there exists another fact,
between two grains of sand, no matter how close together they are,
there exists an interval of space
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in the interstices of primordial matter there is the mysterious, fiery line that is
the world's breathing, and the world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence."
Lispector, Clarice (2010, The Passion According to G.H.)
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