I started creating at a very young age, around 6 years old when I went to “play” in my grandmother's studio, who is also an artist, at that time I didn't imagine being an artist or even knew what design was, I just liked to create and experiment just for the pleasure of the experience. A few years later, I was already playing The Sims and building and decorating houses, making friends online in ch
ats, following the celebrities lifes online and listening to pop music on my flip phone. At this point, editing my photos in Corel Draw or some other program that I was discovering online, was the maximum “artistic” activity that I practiced, the 2000s. In the 2010's, I was entering the job market as a sales assistant at some store, finishing my studies at high school, becoming a digital persona with the power to edit my life, to create some “content” for my friends and consuming everything visual that was available online. My creative practice started when I moved to Portugal, before I just made random drawings on the pages of my notebooks, with personalised covers with some collages. ;)
At this point in 2015, I remembered that, when I was younger and I was going to “play” in my grandmother's studio, one of the things I most loved doing was to create visual compositions using magazines, a way to bring that pop culture to my reality, simply to decorate my room. So it was there, at that moment, when I revisited my childhood and found something that brought me joy, that I restarted this practice as a fun activity, almost as a therapy for the cold days of Portugal. I started to accumulate some works and step by step I got more deep into the process, researching other artists, looking for specific images for my work, looking for ways to improve and achieve the results that I wanted. The next step was to start sharing my work on social media. Until I found myself back at school, taking a degree in Digital Arts and Multimedia, due to a practice that initially “just brought me joy”. A choice that completely changed my life. Just start now, and choose something that brings you joy, to change your life. Now in 2020 my work is a diverse blend of techniques and materials, between digital and manual, design and art, social and online, always bringing something related to the technique that chose me as an artist. I feel connected in some way with the Pop-art movement, not just visually. It is something related to the energy, I’m not sure what it is, I just feel like I’m a child of this movement. The artworks that you will find here are the materialisation of my energy, my feelings, my daily experience and also the result of transforming what exists into something new.
