The remains of the day (2017—ongoing)
Self explanatory, really.
These collages are the visual, tactile equivalent of my preference for literature that is not, essentially, plot driven but that focuses, rather, on texture, on the everyday, on interiority.
The papers are from an ever-growing pile in my studio: papers that I have collected over the years for the simple fact that they track my passage through time.
Lists, notes, instruction manuals, wrappers, quotes snipped from newspapers, envelopes. Also: tickets of all kinds. I have kept just about every ticket from every event that required a ticket since I left Portugal in 2001 to settle in England for the second time. Piles of these tickets were the subject of a series of photographs I exhibited in the virtual project, The Imaginary Museum: Monuments and Landmarks, curated by Louise Atkinson, Leeds College of Art, 2015.
15 collages on watercolour paper, 29 x 42 cm each.
some grace
pour nettoyer vos chaussures
coco
more choice
whatever works
turbulent
chest
date with destiny
maybe this is a little late
birthday babe
i don't give myself time
key answer
l'embarras du choix
poetic frame
to generate current
always fidgety before a trip
the bonnet maketh the woman
taken by surprise
ladies
in the making
simplicity
patna circle
cold sweet