Some artists don’t create only with their hands—they create through listening. They listen
to the wood, to the grain that tells stories, to the seeds that carry ancestral memory, to
the fragments of earth that insist on staying. Teresa Pessoa is one of those artists. With
her series Brazilian Biome, she doesn’t offer us just a landscape, but a living organism.
Each work is a sensitive territory where the Cerrado, the Amazon, and Indigenous cultures
engage in dialogue with the present—and with what is still to come.
Her creative gesture is both ancestral and contemporary. By combining epoxy resin with
seeds, shells, leaves, and discarded wood, Teresa doesn’t simply preserve—she proposes.
She proposes new ways of seeing what was once invisible. Her materials are not mere
decorations—they are witnesses. Each color, each organic texture, each encapsulated
detail becomes poetic matter, a silent, tactile manifesto.
The resin, with its translucent clarity, does more than protect. It suspends time. It gives
nature’s fleeting beauty a chance to endure. And it is within this tension—between the
transient and the eternal—that Teresa constructs her art: a delicate balance between
what was, what is, and what may still bloom.
More than visual artworks, Brazilian Biome is a sensory experience—an emotional
geography shaped by textures, pigments, and stories. Alongside trunks and flowers live
the memories of Indigenous peoples, the breath of the forests, the quiet wisdom of roots.
And within it all lies a powerful lesson: that what transforms does not disappear—it
reinvents itself.
In a time of climate urgency and disconnection from the earth, Teresa invites us to
reconnect—not through protest, but through affection. Her art doesn’t point a finger—it
reaches out a hand. As if to say: here is what remains, and here is what still resists. Here is
what might still bloom.
To observe a piece by Teresa Pessoa is to step into a different kind of time. A time that
pulses with the strength of trees, that breathes with the wisdom of seeds, that waits—
silently—for a gaze that knows how to feel.
Instagram: @teresapessoa_arte
www.teresapessoa.com.br