Maria Nepomuceno creates vibrant sculptures and installations that evoke the nature of organic forms. Utilizing a wide range of materials—including rope, beads, ceramics, gourds, wood, and woven carnauba (palm) straw—her practice synthesizes traditional methods of craftsmanship learned from her collaboration with a group of women in Northern Brazil with her own personal techniques of braiding and weaving. The spiral form is central to her compositions, expanding outwards as an infinite flow of time and energy. Rich colors pass and interweave smoothly into one another, imbuing her sculptures with a shimmering, vital pulsating quality: alive, and drawing in breath.