In this series—whose title translates from Portuguese as “Life doesn’t scare me”—Gomes presents a sculptural meditation on vulnerability and resilience. Each work begins with a metal birdcage, an object associated with ownership, containment, and captivity. The artist intervenes with tenderness and force, bending the cages out of shape and wrapping sections in thread, yarn, and rope, nestling fabric-wrapped stones within the ruptured enclosures. 

As light passes through the altered armatures, the works cast delicate linear shadows onto the walls, like ephemeral drawings. The contrast between hard and soft, open and bound, held and hidden, creates a quiet tension. Valuing the visceral and the intuitive, Gomes allows materials to guide her. “The materials bring me the memory. I don't choose them. They arrive, and I obey.” The result is not just formal abstraction, but what Gomes describes as “Black, feminine, and marginal.” She continues: “I am a rebel. I never worried about masking or stifling anything that might or might not fit standards of what is called art.”