Raw material: cork stoppers selected for the works of Luciana Vilas Boas

Process

Creative process

Every cork carries a trace. In the creative process, what remains becomes living material: selected, composed, and transformed into work.

Raw material: cork stoppers selected for the works of Luciana Vilas Boas 01

Material

Luciana's creative process begins with material. Corks are collected, observed, cut, selected, and recomposed. Each element carries a story: the wine, the convivial gesture, time passed, the mark left on the surface.

Gesture

Composition emerges slowly, through a balance of technique and intuition. Cork becomes line, volume, texture, landscape, face, memory.

Artisan gesture: cutting cork in the creative process of Luciana Vilas Boas 02
Work table with cork stoppers during artistic composition

Composition

The finished work does not erase the origin of the material: it makes it visible. It is precisely in the transformation of residue that the work finds its meaning.

Cork and wine texture: material detail of works by Luciana Vilas Boas

Surface

Texture, layering, and the color of wine remain legible on the surface. Material speaks through visible and tactile traces that invite a slow reading of the work.

From process to work

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