Cyriaco Lopes

Clarice Lispector, Machado de Assis, Fernando Pessoa, Marcel Proust are as good a family tree as Lygia Pape, Hélio Oiticica, Marcel Broodthaers.  And Terri Witek, whose universe, mysterious and ever expanding, is where I have been diving for years.  A series of images originated from her last two books.  This one was a variation for the cover of ‘exit island.’  I thought of Dionysius arriving to Ariadne in the island – an apparition in trance-dance.  The semi-abstract image – my mantle – is a shot of the sea in Rio, all silvers and deep darks.  I am still stranded, hypnotized by this book, in that island.

The Entrance of Dionysius