I treat the human figure and the body as a vehicle to think about the relationship with the other and with himself. I see the portrait as a relationship of duplicity and des/confidence with the real, of des/encounter with oneself. I understand the "feminine" as a place of gestation, event, questioning and permanent mutation.

"Not all body is flesh... No, not all
What about the neck, sometimes marble,
sometimes linen, lake, tree trunk,
cloud, or bird, to the touch always little...?

And the belly, as inconsistent as the slime...
And the warm railing of your arms?
No, my love... not all body is flesh:
is also water, earth, wind, fire...

It’s mostly shadow to farewell;
stone wave at each reunion;
in the park of memory the fugitive

the shape of spring in autumn...
Not only meat is made this prison,
for in your body there is the whole world! "

David Mourão-Ferreira, "Presídio", in “Obra Poética”