Ararinha Azul

Acrylic gouache on paper.

20x27x1"

I paint to isolate what matters. My work strips away the landscape, the noise, the context — until only the subject remains, luminous and exact. Whether I'm working from a bird, a face, or a memory, I'm after the same thing: a single image held still long enough to feel its full presence.
Migration runs underneath everything I make. As a Brazilian painter living in Toronto, I understand memory as something selective and protective — it keeps what is precious and lets the rest dissolve. My paintings work the same way. They are records of beauty that refused to disappear.