I work with wool that is often considered waste — a material that is both beautiful and highly intelligent, yet largely discarded. By bringing it into the context of art and architecture, I aim to question why certain materials lose value, and how new value systems can be built.

Fairness is structural in this practice.
The shepherd, the people who wash and card the wool, and the time invested in making are all acknowledged and fairly compensated. Art pricing is not an aesthetic choice here, it is what makes this chain possible.

Alongside my art practice, I am the founder of @artemis.interieur, an interior architecture firm I started over 30 years ago and that now works with a team of eight. This background shapes how I work: I think in materials, systems, labour, and responsibility.

In the future, this material research may expand toward other endangered crafts in Portugal. Approached not as preservation, but as transformation through new forms and collaborations.