Iron Lungs Print - Limited Edition of 1

For years I’ve ran a factory in the south of Brazil in a cozy little town. It manufactured ropes, probably the most resistant ones in the planet. So resistant they would be used to fix a gigantic deepwater oil rig to the ground. Even though the production process was clean, it invariably left different sorts of wastes. Plastics used as coatings. Leftover yarns. Steel from the machinery maintenance. Soot, carbon monoxide and pollution from the trucks. Anxiety. Brazilian economy was down to the ground and anxiety was up to the roof. For years I watched that. For years I’ve seen all of this go to landfills, junk yards and to the atmosphere. Most lately also to our synapsis. In the middle of this synaptic chaos I found myself into, trying to low costs, to produce more efficiently, to sell with higher margins, to develop brands and to do magic to fight the economic scenario, my mind got into a hurricane and I quite lost it. I was wasted. It turned myself into waste and I started turning waste into something that meant to me. Into something that represented all my anxieties and fears. It was chaos all around. My mind would spend days going round and round. As a result, different ways to explore that materials would flourish. I ended up developing different techniques to capture the waste, apply it on canvas and, later, to photograph it. The production process of this work in special was quite a long journey. It is soot from the atmosphere I was inserted in captured on canvas through a “water-and-soot” technique I’ve developed and fixed with many different chemical wastes. After that, it was photographed using 50mm lenses. The result that you see is this “iron” effect, but in the end it is all pollution that would probably have ended in my lungs. And my heart.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:12 W x 9 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:17.25 W x 14.25 H x 1.2 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.