"If we look at animals and the earth beneath them, at organic molecules and the fluid in which they move, at microscopic insects and the matter that forms and surrounds them, it's clear that matter divides into living and non-living.
But why isn’t all matter either entirely alive or entirely dead?
Can living matter die? Can dead matter ever live again? Could life be something that cycles infinitely between states?"

— Denis Diderot

Mater—meaning "mother"—is the place where matter is eternally generated.
It is the only space where the eternal exists, through the perpetual, centrifugal motion of life-giving forces.
These works break away from traditional figurative sculpture. They fuse plant, animal, and visceral elements in a symbolic struggle for survival, celebrating both life and death, interpreting Judeo-Christian myths and rituals tied to both.

Perhaps the greatest outcome of their two-year residency at the Oficinas da Cerâmica e da Terra was this move toward a rawer, more primal ceramic practice—where the act of making becomes a mystical ritual, surpassing polished aesthetics.