Francis Bacon used the title Instauratio Magna for his project of renewing human knowledge: questioning inherited ideas and finding a new way forward.
At the center of this piece lies my own Instauratio Magna. A fire in my home earlier this year forced me to start over in ways I had not expected. As the house was cleared and rebuilt, I also began to reconsider routines, assumptions, and habits I had carried with me for years. The fire became a clearing of the ground, both literally and personally.
One of its clearest effects appeared in my work. For years, I had focused almost entirely on my identity as an artist, leaving my identity as a designer aside. Art had come to carry the full weight of who I was, creating a pressure that often led to creative blocks. After the fire, something shifted. It broke an invisible creative inertia and helped me let go of rules I had been following mostly out of habit. I began to see art and design not as competing identities, but as different parts of the same practice. Art is an essential part of who I am, but it no longer has to contain everything.
For a long time, I had felt stuck within Tormius, my artistic project, always trying to define what truly represented me as an artist but never quite reaching the ideal I had in mind. While my home was being rebuilt, I spent months reconsidering how I worked, how I saw myself, and what I wanted my practice to become. I tend to do this kind of work in the shadows, slowly taking things apart before finding a new way forward.
This piece represents that new beginning. It brings together the first principles of a visual language that finally feels like my own. The absurd characters and imaginary world that have always lived in my head are now emerging with greater confidence and plenty of room to evolve. This piece marks the beginning of a new path of exploration, first shaped in Rio de Janeiro during the Rio Art Residency, and now sealed by fire.
Fire Walk With Me.
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