The work of Maria Pia Oliveira breaks away with boarders, staying focused on a theme that is obsessively explored, hinting rather than exposing, rendering space as aethereal as possible, as a means to express the artist`s spirituality. As suggested by Hegel, human beings evolve from matter to spirit and Art consists in rendering this dialectic process objective. In this sense, the work of Maria Pia Oliveira comes close to poetry - succint, sensorial, condensed, subtle and insinuating, full of appeal. But questioning at all times how absurd it is to wake up and find out we are alive. It is simultaneously a playful work, through which one enjoys such paradise both lost and re-constructed. Why Nature as protagonist? Pherhaps, as Da Vinci taught us, because "Nature never transgresses her own laws".