Statement

Life is the work of avoiding death, of avoiding entropy. This reality permeates the work and all the paths that lead to it. These paths are the past, the present, the future, the culture, the relationship with myself and with others, the methods and materials.

In the past there were the earth, the mud, the sand, new worlds that were built and imagined inside pieces of the world around me. In these worlds were the first objects and the first aesthetic choices and compositions. Back then began the idea that there are things I want to see that do not exist. How to find magical objects from a civilisation lost between the past and the future? By creating them.

In the present it is more difficult to know where one is, the work does not speak the same language as us, sometimes we do not understand it.

I don't know the objective from the get go, nor do I know how I'm going to get there. Form and content result from materials and methods, experimentation and the making are the forms of research, by doing, one discovers what it is. But technique only interests me up to the point that the material result satisfies me.

T.S. Eliot said that the more perfect the artist the more separate in him is the man who suffers and the man who creates. The more perfectly the mind digests and transmutes the passions which are its material. This is an idea that appeals to me. I see the potential to find in the aesthetic experience its own instruments of reflection. The impulse, the intention, and the choice, conscious and unconscious, guide creation.

Morphological investigation involves collecting Elements, basic building blocks, which are preserved and collected. With these elements research into Composition is carried out exploring the ideas of repetition, empty space, layered construction, asymmetry, and the eye or focus. Scale is embedded in all morphology and allows the creation of new worlds (life is about creating new worlds, reducing entropy), the body is the unit of measurement.

Thus I create these morphological worlds, these structures of the unconscious, these objects. My work is a mutant, and one does not ask a mutant what it is or what it is for. There is something revolutionary in creating something useless.

João dos Bichos