The river appears in my work as both image and metaphor—a way of thinking about the relationship between life and what exceeds it. In the Atlantic Forest, a humid and dense biome of extraordinary biodiversity, storms are constant, and I am drawn to their destructive and regenerative force. Many of my family’s memories gather around the river that runs through our village: floods and drownings, but also moments of leisure and celebration, held—briefly—by the camera’s lens. In the painting series pedra de rio (river rock), I depict stones from that river, reflecting on their permanence and resilience beside the transitory nature of living bodies.