SELECTED WORK
COLLECTED
MIXED MEDIA / 3D
Urban archaeology on a small scale: a Lisbon neighbourhood, seen through what it throws away.
Not the architecture, not the landmarks — a bottle cap, a strawberry wrapper, a pink feather, a parking ticket.
Campo de Ourique. Poster: the finds, their dates and coordinates.
I walked the streets of Campo de Ourique and picked up whatever caught my eye: colourful, shiny, strangely specific bits of rubbish. Each find was photographed where it lay, with the time and place recorded.
Back home they were cleaned, photographed again on a plain background and arranged into a collection — part archive, part inventory, part still life.
38.72004, -9.16023
38.71900, -9.15892
38.71736, -9.16574
38.71584, -9.16610
Coordinates of finds, as printed on the poster.
02 / Found
Every find, picked up where it lay.
On the street: where each piece was found.
Date, time and place, recorded with each photo.
03 / Inventory
Each find, photographed again on white.
Laid out together on black, the rubbish turns into a specimen tray: sorted by colour and shape, numbered by the street. A pink feather sits next to a parking ticket; a Heineken cap next to a treble clef.
The collection, from above.
From photograph to flat shape.
04 / Reconstructed
The finds, turned into 3D objects — and allowed to float.
The finds as 3D models, generated from the photographs in Tencent Hunyuan 3D.
Photorealistic compositions: the same objects in 3D, labelled with the coordinates of where they were found.
A 2D composition, back among the tiles.
05 / Back on the street
On a fence. Mock-up.
Among the azulejos. Mock-up.
Technique: Street collection, photography, 3D models generated from photographs (Tencent Hunyuan 3D), 3D and 2D composition
Place: Campo de Ourique, Lisbon
Year: 2026
Mixed media / 3D
2026
Collected
Urban archaeology on a small scale: a Lisbon neighbourhood, seen through what it throws away.
Campo de Ourique. Poster: the finds, their dates and coordinates.
Not the architecture, not the landmarks — a bottle cap, a strawberry wrapper, a pink feather, a parking ticket.
I walked the streets of Campo de Ourique and picked up whatever caught my eye: colourful, shiny, strangely specific bits of rubbish. Each find was photographed where it lay, with the time and place recorded.
Back home they were cleaned, photographed again on a plain background and arranged into a collection — part archive, part inventory, part still life.
38.72004, -9.16023
38.71900, -9.15892
38.71736, -9.16574
38.71584, -9.16610
Coordinates of finds, as printed on the poster.
Found
01
Every find, picked up where it lay.
Every find, in hand. Video.
On the street
Swipe →
Reflective tape, on the pavement.
A strawberry wrapper, on the cobbles.
A purple foil disc.
Date, time and place, recorded with each photo.
Inventory
02
Laid out together on black, the rubbish turns into a specimen tray: sorted by colour and shape, numbered by the street. A pink feather sits next to a parking ticket; a Heineken cap next to a treble clef.
The collection, from above.
Each find, again on white
Swipe →
A foil cap.
A pink feather.
A twist of rope.
From photograph to flat shape. Video.
Reconstructed
03
The finds, turned into 3D objects — and allowed to float.
The finds as 3D models, generated from the photographs in Tencent Hunyuan 3D.
Compositions
Swipe →
3D composition, labelled with the coordinates of the finds.
3D composition.
A 2D composition, back among the tiles.
Back on the street
04
On a fence. Mock-up.
Among the azulejos. Mock-up.
Technique
Street collection, photography, 3D models generated from photographs (Tencent Hunyuan 3D), 3D and 2D composition
Place
Campo de Ourique, Lisbon
Year
2026
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