Steel, aluminum, and resin
229 × 57.5 × 57.5 cm
2024
This work bridges the pruning of the lemon tree my father planted and the shack of my childhood. Between thorns and polished metal, the act of cutting becomes care — part of learning not to get hurt, and eventually removing the thorns, like the bare branches in the basin. The sculpture marks a passage between softness and intensity, between hiding and protecting. In the steel basin, memory shifts form yet persists, articulated through aluminum and resin — echoing Paolo Rossi’s reflections in O passado, a memória, o esquecimento: Seis ensaios da história das ideias [The Past, Memory and Forgetting: Six Essays on the History of Ideas] (1991) on how the past is destroyed and rearticulated.