(Poem printed in a brochure for Helena Lopes' exhibition in Vila Mandaçaia/SP). ... 

Foreign in the birch forest. 

The void to be filled. 

Ancestry. 

The search. 

Time. Walls. Floors. 

Occupation of territory. 

Evacuation. 

Poland. The field. 

... 

Cracks are images of time. 

They form maps. 

Suddenly, a character; an identification. 

Other floors constitute figures. 

Clicks. 

... 

The return to the studio. 

Art and the metamorphosis of memory. 

Archives come to life. Images are captured. 

Editing. Cutouts. Virgílio. 

The vessel and chaos. The tightrope walker. 

The cure for pain, for shortness of breath.