Quanto é? (How much is it?), 2024-2026
Variable Edition; Drypoint, Monotype on Tetrapak, Image, 9x9.25 in
My ongoing print series Quanto é (How much is it?) centers on drawings of small fish—blue jack mackerel, a staple of Azorean Portuguese foodways and diasporic communities in the United States. Repurposing discarded Tetrapak packaging as a printing matrix, I incise and transfer images that surface and recede, reflecting a tension between migration, assimilation, and erasure.
By asking 'How much is it?,' the series situates these prints within broader systems of extraction and displacement—industrial overfishing, climate change, and neoliberal economic policies that disrupt ecosystems and communities. Through repetition and transformation, these prints insist on presence.
From the exhibition, Altered States, 2026
Prints stitched together; drypoint, monotype, oil pastel, and print on Kozo Mulberry Silk, and Rives BFK paper, 9.25x27 inches