We Went to Brazil
Paintings and Mixed Media, 2005–2007
Created in a London studio while dreaming of escape, tropical mythologies, and ecstatic embodiment, We Went to Brazil is a series of paintings and sculptural surfaces that revel in sensuality, chaos, and the unruly joy of color.
Each work is a site of intuitive excavation—where viscera meets confetti, cosmetic meets soil, and abstraction becomes a portal. These pieces emerged during a period of intense artistic freedom, using materials that included thick impasto paint, hair, synthetic colorants, glitter, wax, and even detritus. The works speak in a visual language that is both ornamental and guttural.
These works are not polite. They don’t ask permission. They ooze, accumulate, and assert themselves as presence—part altar, part wound, part celebration. This is painting as invocation.
