Parabéns pra você! (Happy Birthday to you!)

This work is made of aluminium molds covered with concrete and gravel on a birthday cake shape. It is lifted by iron feet that refers to a table and integrates the work. It is a subversion of the traditional sculpture basis, and also refers to a historic motif: still life.

The work came by memories of my childhood at a orphanage. It is a work about absence, coldness, abandonment and irony (a cake that never can satisfy hunger). It contains conceptual emptyness on concrete volums and weight.