“In this work, created in the Serra do Mar, in the heart of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest,

I present a mirrored world,

an ecosystem reflected, doubled, and divided by its image in water.

It is a meditation on my being-in-the-world.

Through these images, I seek to reveal the otherness

that lies at the core of the self —

for this alterity defines the very essence of consciousness.

By its very nature, the self is reflexive —

as language reminds us,

especially in the rigorous clarity of Latin syntax.

The self refers —

but always returns to the subject.

It marks a relation of the subject to itself,

and an opening toward the other. ” ²