THE BRIDGE

© 2019 Vilma Machado

All my work is grounded in three elements, Time, Listening and Space.

Time, because it is within time that our essence was launched into countless experiences. Listening, because it is the bridge between who we are and who we become throughout temporality. It is through listening that we remain connected to our essence during this journey through time. Space, because it is where everything gains material form, thoughts, choices and actions. And it is within space that the greatest challenge of this experience is found, not allowing the bridge to be broken by our ego.

Inserted into temporality, life makes itself present and, through the experiences that reach us, we gradually become selves.

A universe of selves interacting with countless other selves, crossing one another, accumulating and intertwining throughout temporality, creating everything that exists within the space of materiality.

When we realize that this space is an illusion, not in its materiality, but in its own temporality, we discover that the only thing truly concrete we possess is what we carry from our lived experiences and the bridge that will always lead us back to what we may call home.