Pulvis Sumus | 2013

“This thing we call life is nothing more than a circle we make from dust to dust: from the dust we were to the dust we will be. Some draw bigger circles, others smaller ones(…) De útero translatus ad tumulum: whether the way is long, short, or very short; as it is a circle from dust to dust, always and in every part of our life we are dust. The dust that was our beginning, that same and none other is our end, and, as we walk in circles from this dust to the next, the more we seem to separate from it, the closer we get: the step that gets us further away is the same that approaches us; the same day that creates life is going to destroy it in the same time. And in this weel that keeps turning both ways, always grinding us, we are always dust.”

Padre António Vieira, in "Sermons"

 Materials: wood, sawdust, plastic balls and rope