When a railroad is built, crossties are used to support the placement of the rails. It is on those wood pieces that they seat, so as to even the land and to absorb shocks. Strange paradox of this friendly component, useful for building a road through which everything go away. Wood beams, at first associated to homes construction, transformed into a bed through which all departs.

Rodrigo Andrade raised a pile of crossties, forming a cube of about 13 feet wide. But part of the beams are cut diagonally, giving the group unequal angles, a configuration loaded with strangeness and mystery. When the process is reversed, building a crossties' house, Andrade completes the returning cycle to the place. Sculpted like a log pile, it refers to the essential place _ Home _ from which the mechanical modernity, propelled by the train, moved us away. This compact, heavy house seems to have always been there. She is everything that the metropolis' constructions could never be.

It is extraordinary the presence of this simple shape, nonetheless loaded with symbolic force. Here the crossties cover the quietness and the serenity impregnated in the trees, features that are concealed when put to service of movement. Such a plain shape seems to condense an itinerary originated in immemorial times, and it will take us much beyond modernity.