I approach paper as a living skin — a surface that breathes, absorbs, and remembers. Handmade paper is a body, carrying traces of time, topographies of experience, and the silent marks of emotional memory.My practice unfolds through water. I layer, soak, and re-wet, allowing fibers to dissolve or reawaken while gravity, light, and evaporation take part in the authorship. The transformations that emerge — curling edges, shifting textures, fragile holes — echo the way emotions mark us, how memory lingers and fades.At Loulé Criativo, I developed a series of works grounded in the idea that water is the condition for life — but never fully ours. Inspired by the lunar pull on tides, the oceans and tears alike, I explored how moisture in its many forms — breath, condensation, submersion — can turn paper into a reflective body. My papers behave like skin: vulnerable, reactive, marked by contact. I draw from the myth that water allowed us to live on Earth only under the condition that she would dwell within us. In this way, each sheet becomes both document and presence — a witness to cycles of longing, forgetting, and return.My artistic vocabulary is minimal, tactile, and slow. I work with paper and natural forces, where what disappears is as meaningful as what remains.Through Lachrymology — my poetic study of tears — I seek to reveal fragility not as weakness, but as strength: the capacity to absorb, to let go, to transform.

Thank you Loulé Criativo and Paper Lab Berlin for making this residency possible, and for creating a space where paper, ideas, and friendships could grow.My heartfelt gratitude to all the international artists I had the joy of sharing this journey with — Brenda @brendamalkinson-artist, Viviana @arqrunicos_colour, Vera @veramcevoy-artist, Jina @jinanebe, Isobel @isc-ceramica and  Guy @guy.lougashi. Each of you brought inspiration, exchange, and a spirit of generosity that made this experience unforgettable.