I grew up between Portugal and the Netherlands, in a family active internationally in sociology and social development. From an early age, I was connected to different countries and initiatives dedicated to social equality. This background nurtured my interest in culture and in forms of connection, with one another and with the earth.

After studying at Wageningen University, where I studied traditions related to collectivity and the relationship between people and nature, I initiated projects in Portugal, Cape Verde, São Tomé, Guinea-Bissau, and the Netherlands. In close collaboration with communities and carriers of heritage, whose perspectives and practices remain central, I address how histories of colonization disrupted traditions rooted in ecological care and collective life, and how these traditions can be re-encountered and brought into presence once more. My role is to support, imagine, and weave connections within these processes. Collective trajectories take shape in different mediums like painting, sculpture and installation.