The moment the path divides.
One of eight artists in the first-ever BLANK challenge — and continuing as BLANK is built in public.
I paint the instant of change — and I'm bringing it to BLANK.
My practice begins in classical figurative technique and expands toward abstraction, collage, and text. I am not interested in the figure at rest — I am interested in the threshold, the crossing, the dissolve.
At BLANK, that threshold becomes the work itself: the canvas, the themes underneath it, and the process — made on camera, in real time.
The work
Figurative painting grounded in classical craft, pushed toward collage, text, and gesture. In Brazil Poems, lyrics are veiled under oil — to see becomes a way to hear.
The themes
Transformation, migration, queerness, the body, belonging. A Brazilian body becoming, in Toronto.
On camera
Painting is healing; the process is the content. The work is made in real time — not just shown.
Watch the painting made.
BLANK documents artists in real time — the studio, the wet canvas, the decisions. My on-camera practice continues beyond the challenge: technique, philosophy, and the quiet of the studio, in two languages.
I paint the moment of change — the last flash of light before the path divides.
Help finish the pilot.
On April 26, eight artists — myself among them — competed in the first-ever BLANK challenge at TMU's Sandbox in Toronto. The footage is shot; the pilot is now in post-production. BLANK is a Canadian non-profit building a new platform for how artists are seen, supported, and remembered.
process, not polish — built in public.