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| The great blocks of asphaltic mass, spread on the area in front of the Matarazzo chimneys, partly buried, some tumbled, are the last and more evident form of that place's collapse.
The non-decaying impermeability of asphalt seems to concentrate all the polluting oil and vapors that the factory expelled for many decades.
| Those forms deteriorate without ever integrating to the landscape. They are the evidence of its complete entropy. | The blocks made by Carlito Carvalhosa, in different sizes and indeterminate shapes, are chaotically scattered through the area.
| An irregularity that corresponds to the structural disaggregation of the existent constructions. It is as if they had been randomly dropped, scattered during works that were never concluded. There isn't any pretense organization of the place. They are opportunistic forms, growing as harmful industrial herbs, parasites of the remaining structures. Here, nobody belongs to nobody. The positioning and scaling inadequacies are commentaries to the area's urban and architectural disaggregation. Because they are shaped in place, the asphaltic material of the blocks leaks a little. The resulting excrescence on the geometric shapes look like a sort of cancer, in a radical questioning of modern sculpture's constructive rigidity. The aggressive nature of asphalt accentuates the incompatibility between these structures and the place. The blocks evidently don't belong there. Their fast disaggregation, a few days after unmolded, only emphasizes this displacement. Evidencing how the attempt of covering the streets with an impermeable and plastic layer actually produces a topography even more eroded, cluttered with unused materials incompatible with the area. Ineffective before the scale and weight questions presented by the city. The asphalt that still leaks, permeating the soil, covering part of the constructions, completes the picture of that world's irreversible corrosion.
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