My family comes from different places in the state of Pará, but they are connected by the same riverside experience of the islands that surround the city. My mother comes from the island of Marajó, where she always took me on trips on my grandfather's boat, a fisherman and great storyteller, stories that always fascinated me and made me travel. Marajó is an enchanted island and its folklore is one of my inspirations, along with riverside technology.

I always felt like a very creative child, I used all the materials possible to build my toys and my garden was this space where I could play and invent. I grew up and this creative instinct remained and I realised that it was something serious and very intimate. Today I understand that it is precisely this way of creating that helped me to be in places where I never imagined myself to be. The forest will always be my source of inspiration and fashion or clothing here has a very strong identity and I hope it is on the right path to strengthen and encourage other people to understand the depths of our technology to create things that tell us more about ourselves.

Music for me is something that reconnects me to moments, stories and takes me to unimaginable places. The way we treat music here is very affective, they carry a lot of strength, local cultural identity and music is also a way of marking our territory. The lyrics alone say it all, when we form teams or name equipment and animals that represent it, all of this is connected with my work, I believe. My references are beyond the visual, all things pulsate here. Our music is very futuristic and unique, even difficult to understand for someone who comes from another place but I love it, creating our own codes.

When I do an experiment where I'm just in my backyard and I feel like I need to do something right there and now, or anywhere else, I just use things that are there at that moment. But for the use of some specific work I study and prepare myself beforehand, I know where to find what I need for that situation. I am always full of materials.

Yes of course. There are other states in Brazil that I would love to visit as well, Brazil is very big, almost a continent. It would be amazing to be able to meet other countries and artists that I could collaborate with, India and Thailand are on my wish list.

I think it's instinct. Playing with these subjects in my backyard when I was a kid was always fun and an exercise for my imagination and it just flowed. I used to build dolls and my mother would tell me how she used to play in childhood and that fascinated me, even as a child. Imagining that I could build clothes was a little while ago and I learned that everything needs to be done with great care and precision, as I don't usually use other types of materials to make the lashings, unless some look needs to be used for a long time. But I usually tie leaf to leaf. There is maths for everything to be well aligned and asymmetrical is not so easy.

I started making masks first rather than wearing a full body. And the creation process was a very difficult time for me, the mask was almost like a shield where I felt protected and more comfortable to register. Although the creations took place from that dark moment, I believe today that the leaves cured me of this feeling and made me understand the real meaning of my work, which for me is healing.

Yes! I think the forest is an inspiration beyond just using its materials. But everything is fascinating, colours, shapes and textures. I really want to be able to reproduce this in future works, I still don't know what the right material would be. I think 3D pieces are the future of fashion and I also love creating virtual pieces.

I prefer to focus on what nourishes me here, there is still so much to learn and understand. The Brazilian Amazon is very large and there is enormous diversity within it. I want to travel but always understand that I need to go back. I hope to be able to fulfill my dream of getting to know other countries that are part of the Amazon, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana. I prefer to collaborate with artists from other regions so that we can join forces. We have already suffered a lot from these types of aggressions here, cultural appropriation, theft of our ideas and our lives.

I really want to travel the world and have the opportunity to work with other artists, get back into music and delve deeper into photography. My goal is to be able to give my family a more comfortable life, but I already feel a blessed person for working doing what I love.