We carry those who came before us—in mimicked gestures, in stories, in the shared silences.

This page gathers intimate works that reflect on memory, kinship, and the threads that tie one generation to the next. Through photography, drawing, painting, ceramics, and textile, I explore how family becomes matter—how care, absence, and remembrance take shape in form and texture.

Each piece is a quiet echo of someone who shaped me. A braid remembered, the curve of a neck, a face traced from memory or photograph. These are not portraits of likeness alone, but of presence—of what remains when we look back with our hands.

Family portraits

This collection brings together a series of works created between through the years, exploring familial memory through diverse mediums.

Included are analog photographs from rural Northern Portugal—capturing gestures, landscapes, and everyday moments deeply rooted in my upbringing. Ceramics inspired by my grandmothers evoke tactile memories: a tile portrait of Isménia, modeled after her features; sculptural pieces shaped by the memory of Tereza’s braid, which I witnessed being cut in childhood—a gesture that lingered and transformed into form.

Hair holds symbolic weight—offered, severed, or preserved in rituals of passage and devotion. These silent customs become gestures of transmission, woven into the works themselves.

Alongside them, a series of drawings trace familial faces and the shifting sense of self shaped by lineage. In this page, memory is not fixed—it is modeled, stitched, drawn, and held.