Vigils are painting-memories of happenings that enter the night in the artist's studio, sometimes more behaved, and other times, with too much dancing and drinking. Vigil is about belonging. Talking about myself from the mirror of the other: experiences that become politics based on this meeting.

One of my main influences was a Brazilian folklore book in which I lived throughout my childhood, in which Iara, a mermaid represented with the green cause, enchanting a fisherman on the front of a boat, was my first experience with oil painting.

Upon meeting Iara at an exhibition of her transvestite friends and having her volunteer to pose as a model, I suggested that she come as Iara, in a classic mermaid pose. Barbara Iara arrived at my studio, lay down on the couch with her blue fins, and with him, that old pose I called odalisque became the pose of a mermaid. We had so much fun that when I saw it, it was morning and we were still there.