"I paint like someone who writes poetry, involved by events on the surface of the paper. However, I also paint, as an illustrator, to connect with the world and to intervene in it with the resources I have. Each illustration is always connected to a story, to an event, to a moment. Some are connected to small things; others are composed of stories involving more noble deeds. That is why the illustration has a predominant graphic, public and social dimension. Most of the works I would like to exhibit here were born from the stories of people who fight for a better world. From doctors in remote places in Africa, from people who take in refugees, from people who come together to defend human differences, from those who fight against the stigma of mental illness and those who struggle to save rivers – along with many others." Maria Reis Rocha
"A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings".
