...Here is a set of works - a closed unit - which opens simultaneously in a thousand directions of manifold reality, aiming at codifying the obvious and the imaginary into signs and shapes, essentiality and substance.

...Here we see a landscape searched between signs and recreated in the pictures of equal size (40 x 40 cms), which simulate tiles of a personal, tangible and visible courtyard, suggested by Aprigio and Frederico.

...It is, in principle, a never-ending inward look of things through the maximum possible "exterior", macro and micro - finally proposed as synthesis. He who has eyes to see (what else are they for?) knows that all wisdom is registered within such limits.

Fernando Monteiro "Tangible Courtyards". 1991