Breaking a pledge to secrecy, I typed five copies of originally typewritten letters that my grandfather had sent my father in the late 1940s, and gave them to my sisters. A sound piece, in an incantatory rhythm, evokes the way my grandfather signed off his letters: ‘I am father and friend,’ which is also the title of this work.

• typewritten sheets of carbon paper, needles, sound
• variable dimensions
• EXHIBITIONS: ‘Alcova’, Galeria Laura Marsiaj, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil / ‘Trajetórias 4’, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Brasil 

Photo: Flávio Lamenha