13 Steps to Storm consists of 13 watercolors on paper and waterproof speaker. Each watercolor and speaker have names that start or end at sea: Abismar (Abyss), Dizimar (Decimate), Sublimar (Sublimate), Marx (Karl Marx), Exumar (Exhume), Marginal, Martelo (Hammer), Inflamar (Ignite), Marisa (name of President Lula's late wife), Lastimar, Deformar (Deform), Blasfemar (Blaspheme), Defumar (Smoke).
Nature, its power of destruction, as well as human revolutionary actions are the driving forces behind the 13-step storm work. Works such as The Great Wave by Katsushika Hokusai, William Turner's sea storms, as well as poems by Derek Walcott and Álvaro de Campo are references that guide the work.
The sea is at work nostalgic element to be drifting. At some point the sea storm comes on the scene and directs us to the utter lack of control, where human decisions and beliefs can do nothing or interfere. The segregations and approaches determined by human cultural reason completely lose their meaning in the midst of devastating waves.
The work is an invitation to think about the segregation between matter / nature and soul / civilization inherited from Western culture, as well as the political misuse of this segregation for manipulation and interference of citizens' beliefs, making approximations between soul / civilization with extreme parties. to the detriment and annihilation of the left parties.
