I’m always looking to have vinyl records, I have a collection and I’m always out in the city trying to find more. Also, I’m a big fan of Blaxploitation movies ( the films and the poster styles) , and that style from those wonderful movies reflects a lot of the shapes of my paint and my works. Tell us about your collaborations with your husband Izolag and I have the same affinities in art, culture and life, and in 2006, we began to paint together, both working with stencil and we produced several paintings in Bahia, Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro. Thus was created the Firm and Strong Records, picture recorder that has as its main reference, the music world and its cultural context. Firm and Strong Records extends the boundaries of media, transforming beats into multicolored graphics, working with posters, paintings, graffiti and photography, making a harmonious union of picture with sound. We are directly influenced by the Brazilian culture, and our repertoire does not
incorporate the old-fashioned and dictatorial academic art, but the pure and intrinsically public art of album covers from different countries, ranging from posters and the psychedelic revolutionaries to the present day, movies, cartoons, animations and the world of skateboarding, surfing, comics and so on. Izolag and I intend to start producing music on vinyl, and we are partnering with several groups, bands, singers and Brazilian collectives, and we are working to bring together and bring alive alternative culture and Brazilian traditions.
Is there an international language of painting There are universal standards of painting, painting styles that we all copied in order to learn to paint. For example graffiti letters, forms of urban calligraphy signatures like tags have specific formulas in order to give a form and a framework to the style. An order and standards for all. This is part of the knowledge of the language of painting.