Ready to seduce your virility

Ring, 2009, soap, pubic hair and gold, 70x60x30 mm 

This work was made for the project Lingam. Lingam represents life and fertility, a creative force, a force that is strongly linked to sexual energy.  For this work I used materials such as gold, pubic hair, and soap. The use of hair as a material can cause different reactions: it can be attractive or repulsive. Soap is an important material associated with cleaning.

Full of you II

Brooch, 2008, gold and human hair, 70x55x5 mm

I used hair of a friend to make this brooch.

In the nineteenth century, hair was used as a metaphor to remember and preserve the memory of a loved one and someone special. 

Auto Portrait

Brooch, 2007, gold and my own hair, 70x50x10 mm

In my work I have been exploring the idea of the aesthetics of repetition.

I used my own hair to make this brooch that I titled Auto Portrait.

The hair is part of a person, the person's identity, the person's presence but it can also show on the other hand a person's absence. In a society in which so much depends upon appearance, especially for women hair helps to communicate sexuality but it can also be a means of expression for female individuality. Hair was always a significant and remarkable attribute of bodily appearance. The association of hair with sexuality has made hair the symbol of a remarkable force and the distinction between male and female.

Covered

Body piece, 2007, natural cork, polyester thread, 30 000 mm

 Project 2nd Skin, the idea was to use cork as a material. The skin is the covering of whole body, but does skin show the body or does it hide it?

Martyrs - Heroes in Paradise

Brooch, 2006, rubber, gold and hair, 130x130x23mm

Brooch, 2006, rubber, gold and hair, 110x86x72 mm 

Brooch, 2006, rubber, gold and hair, 93x72x54 mm

Brooch, 2006, rubber, gold and hair, 94x69x59 mm

I decided to work with the theme of Martyrs and New-Martyrs.

The Martyrs sacrificed their body for their ideals, believes, passions, for something they consider more important than life itself.

I decided to work with rubber – dolls heads in combination with gold and my own hair.

Head – Brain; Reason; Memory

Gold – Value; Desire; Precious

Hair – Beauty; Passion; Sensuality

Process: I cut off the head of dolls and I removed the hair, next I had them attached to the gold pin using my own hair.

Martyrs

Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, Gregório Lopes, 1536-38, oil on wood panel, 119x244 cm

Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal

Body piece, 2005, canvas, candles and wax, 280x1100x30 mm

In the painting by Gregório Lopes, The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, the martyr is represented, according to his most common, beautiful, sensual, undressed, androgynous iconographic type. His body presents itself as serene, despite its torment. Death is present but in a gentle metaphoric way. Just as candles are consumed by flame, death also seems to consume him slowly. His body has stopped being important. It is sacrificed for an ideal. At the present moment, the body is also sacrificed for ideals of beauty or belief. 

Death-Life

Necklace, 2005, paper and fishing line, 15x15x10000 mm

In this work, inspired in nature, I was focused on the transformation and deterioration which occur in nature after the fall of the petals of the flowers and the leaves of the trees; the way how they are received and camouflaged in the soil and their slow process of degradation which continues to allow life to develop itself. 

Cut

Brooches, 2004, oxidized Silver, 19x23x2 mm

Shadow

Pins, 2002, silver, rice paper and painted wood, different dimensions

Vice Versa

Necklace, 2002, aluminium and silk, 1060x37x10 mm

In this necklace I have applied an old tradition. A piece of jewellery was often crafted as preciously in the front side as in the back. 

Observe-Absorb

Rings, 2002, oxidized silver, 40x20x27 mm

At first sight one can´t imagine what can be discovered when you observe and absorb.

Nature & Time

Pin, 2002, silver, 17x17x18 mm

Throughout the years, nature has distinguished itself through its richness and its perfection and has awakened a constant desire in humanity to investigate it and subjugate it. My work refers to this investigation of nature, which has proved to be a never to be satisfied ambition.

OctoPearl

Necklace, 2000, pearls and rubber, 400x27x25 mm 

I decided to use the octopus image, due to its organic aspect and its orifices on the tentacles that seemed ideal to receive the pearls.