Faith

Baptized in the Catholic church, we salute Shiva in our yoga practices, meditate with Buddhist teachings, participate in traditional Amazonian ceremonies and every New Year, we always try to skip seven waves to make wishes to the Queen of the Sea.

From the grandiose gold-plated Buddha at Wat Pho to Michelangelo’s iconic Pietà, divine sculptures have been made with some of the noblest materials available in each era. In 2022, Furf’s sculptures – Holy Mary, Buddha and Iemanjá – are produced with a biomaterial of natural origin, durable and sustainable. With a negative carbon footprint, it cleans the environment with its production.

To make each sculpture, there is a dialogue between the traditional and the technological: generic images of popular saints were 3D scanned, enhanced with modern software to create the 3D printed molds – which serve as a cradle for the growth of mycelium, a biomaterial also used by NASA. No marble or bronze, a high technology developed by Mush.

A limited edition of seven units of each figure, instigates by not finding barriers between Religion, Science, Tradition and Innovation. In this plural syncretism lies a beautiful part of our national identity, the power to unite, instead of polarize. We just need to have faith.