Through free flowing textures and stain washes, this work reflects life in constant motion: unpredictable, fleeting, and often beyond our control. In contrast, the symbology represents intention, the meanings and structures we create to stay rooted in integrity within change.

Between fluidity and structure, chaos and purpose, the work embodies how symbolism becomes a way of grounding ourselves within shifting currents, ultimately revealing that beauty lies in impermanence.

À Flor da Pele is an offering of my deepest vulnerability yet, inviting the same openness in the viewer: to see ourselves as delicate blooms of nature that feel life all the way from the resilience of the core to the tenderness of the surface.