Handcrafted entirely from felted wool and raw fleece from various Portuguese sheep, locally sourced. 2024 for Coletivo Guarda-Rios.
Monstro Guarda-Rios
Monstro rises like a wool-wrapped apparition, soft as river mist, strange as something half-remembered. Worn like a second skin, this towering creature stands guard over the waters of Portugal, a soft sentinel for the waterways it seeks to honour. Made for a collective that studies and defends these lifelines, the piece blurs the line between beast and spirit, protector and myth. It is tender and monstrous, warm yet uncanny, alive with contradiction, like the rivers themselves: flowing and still, gentle and fierce, ancient and always becoming. Here, wool becomes memory, and the body becomes a vessel. The Monstro doesn’t speak, it listens, offering a felt experience that lingers in the liminal space between the known and the imagined.