Assemblative Creatures

These photographs depict trunks from the beaches of southern Brazil that no longer function as trees, becoming hosts, at low tide, to creatures brought by the sea. Their contortions resemble gestures of affection, suggesting animal presences as they surface on the sand seeking warmth or breath. I read them as affective architecture: a continuation of their arboreal life, shaped by sociability, displacement, regrouping, occupation, seasonality and an enduring capacity to adapt over time and tides.