Sonia J. ( 1971, Serra da Estrela, Portugal): my practice sits at the intersection of lived leadership, emotional intelligence, and material experimentation. I work through abstraction to translate pressure, change, and recovery into color, rhythm, and surface—images that hold intensity without becoming aggressive. I’ve been investigating blue not only as a color, but as a behavior—a responsive system that changes with light, material, distance, and scale. I treat blue as an active field rather than a passive surface: it can absorb, recede, vibrate, soften edges, or sharpen contrast depending on how it is built and where it is encountered. In the studio, I test how blue reacts under different conditions: warm vs. cool light, diffuse daylight vs. spot illumination; close viewing vs. peripheral vision; intimate scale vs. architectural presence. Material is part of the experiment.