Listening to Anna being interviewed for her exhibition “Between Senses” and at the SCAD Museum of Art (“By a Thread”) she comes across as a very sensitive articulate woman that enjoys the sensual feeling of working with clay “ it is a celebration of the hands” and creating sculptures that having a sense of the body in time and place. Her work spanning over fifty years has an un-complicated tactile resonance. I see minimalism and expressionism as being very evident with a distinct accord with life in how her clay sculptures attached to the wall and on the gallery floors have this sense of movement and freshness that looks like they were newly made. Her drawings have this similar tactility, simple form objects that again are un-complicated in the use of just one or two colors give this striking lively agility. It is quite amazing to look back at Anna’s work and see how little has changed yet they continue to possess this free-flowing sensuality. I can see a connection in her sculptures with Eva Hesse how Eva presented herself as a participant in her work she had the same feminity and tactility that lives on. My interest clearly is how both Anna and Eva articulate the bodily resonance of how they are able to demonstrate the lived organic and sensual personal presence. Anna discussed in Between The Senses interview what she defines her practice as having, motherhood, hunger, migration, fragility, resistance, lovemaking for something lost, and nomadic as a Brazilian woman. In the late ’60s and 1970s, a political emphasis was present in her work as was the same at the time with her contemporaries Helio Oiticica, Rubens Gerschman, Raymundo Colares, Antonio Dias.