Some paintings do not begin with an idea, but with a vision.
The Transformation came to me in that way: not as a concept, but as an inner image unfolding slowly, asking to be translated into color, form, and gesture.
At the base of the painting are patterns inspired by Indigenous visual traditions of the Amazon. They appeared to me not as ornament, but as a kind of living ground - a woven language of memory, spirit, and relation. From within that language, the python emerged as a sacred presence, overseeing the transformation held within the canoe, where a flowering tree rises like a sign of life becoming something other than itself.
The jaguar, meanwhile gazes forward - toward the place where the river disappears into the forest, into what cannot yet be seen. It carries the force of threshold and prophecy, of instinct turned toward the future, while the canoe becomes a vessel of passage, bearing this quiet metamorphosis between worlds.
These elements entered the work almost as presences rather than symbols, creating a landscape shaped by passage, watchfulness, and change.
For me, The Transformation dwells in that sacred in-between space where something old loosens, where unseen forces gather, and where the soul begins to move toward another form of knowing.