I am a Brazilian artist-researcher working at the intersection of creative practice, semiotics, and process-based inquiry. I hold a Ph.D. in Visual Arts (University of São Paulo) and have completed postdoctoral research in the United States and Spain, experiences that broadened my engagement with diverse artistic, educational, and research environments.

For more than two decades, I taught in higher education in Brazil, supporting artists and students as they navigated how ideas move: how they emerge as impulse, meet the resistance of materials and circumstances, and gradually take form. This long-term pedagogical practice sharpened my sensitivity to the subtle movements that shape creative work.

Grounded in Peircean pragmatism and phenomenology, I work through a process-centered semiotic approach that treats openness, confrontation, and synthesis as natural movements of creation rather than linear steps. My current research examines visual heuristics and thought-in-action, drawing from Peirce’s manuscripts — especially gesture, revision, and diagrammatic reasoning — to understand how creative and intellectual processes become visible.

I am the founder of In Process – Creative Residency, an award-winning program publicly recognized in Brazil for innovation in art and design education. Implemented across multiple editions in Brazil, the residency offers a space for observing how ideas change state, how materials respond, and how meaning evolves through shared inquiry.

Now based in Greater Boston, I am seeking collaborations with universities, art schools, museums, and cultural organizations interested in semiotic approaches to creative inquiry and the design of process-based learning environments.

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