Carta de amor is a work that mirrors Grafite (1985/1988).

I see Grafite as the beginning of the thought that allowed for the construction of works with various spaces. Agglomerations of places, just like the arias, musical blocks that are added together in operas.

In Grafite, two long rods are positioned with different procedures: one aligned with the sun’s axis, at the moment the work is installed. This position alludes to a “perfect” placement as it is the main reference in the solar system, around which everything revolves and gravitates – a precise point, in comparison to which everything else can be considered askew. As the arrangement of the piece is defined a priori, even before the choice of the exhibition space, there is no possibility of composition with it. The other piece, purposefully, has its position chosen.

Carta de amor is its reflection. A long marble cylinder is placed vertically in the architecture, and therefore “perfect” with it. What is sought for now in time – no longer in space – is the moment at which this cylinder will form a cross with the sun’s axis. That which previously, in Grafite, was aligned, in Carta de amor, is transversal. Despite the sculpture’s evident (even pendular) verticality, it is actually horizontal in our solar system.