11 QUESTIONS
with
CAMILA ROCHA
1/11 What are you growing?
I’m growing landscapes and suspended plants at the moment.
2/11 Is there a plant you’re currently obsessed with?
Now I’m back to plurality, diversity and collectiveness, but I spent two years focusing on Ferns, the first plant on Earth, dating back from 450.000.000 years ago. They were the center of my life.
3/11 Where do you do your best work?
In the kitchen, I love to cook.
4/11 What would we find on your studio table right now?
A bunch of paint pots, a lot of brushes, a hair dryer, knives, scissors, white glue, a papier mache volcano, a piano partita of Villa-Lobos, one super huge canvas with oil painted clouds waiting to dry, one small canvas waiting for its destiny, the watercolor sketch of Plants of Insistence installation.
5/11 What do you collect?
Brushes and brooches.
6/11 Do you have a favorite word?
Selaguinella lepidophylla
7/11 What do you notice before other people do?
Light and color maybe?
8/11 When were you last surprised?
By the Eufrates river just yesterday, I didn't know it was such a poetry, it felt like diving into our history as civilization.
9/11 What couldn’t you live without?
Music, good dine and wine, my watercolor paint, paper and brushes, my lipsticks and earrings, a comfortable sofa, a book.
10/11 Istanbul or São Paulo? Or both, or neither?
Both, sometimes Istanbul, sometimes São Paulo and sometimes I ask myself what the hell?
11/11 What kind of landscape do you return to in your mind most often?
The Atlantic forest mountains, waterfalls, rocks, giant trees, plants diversity and the view of it all while swimming in the deep sea.
Camila Rocha’s portrait was photographed by Emirkan Cörüt for border_less.