I was, and still am, greatly inspired by the work Blood Mirror by Jordan Eagles, in which he painted a large glass canvas/sculpture with rejected blood donations from gay, bisexual and transexual men. What interests me, artistically and academically, is how to use materials and processes with a similar socio-political urgency, and how to develop and create, musically, this punch in the stomach.

WHAT DOES THE WALL SAY was composed in 2024, when more cases of police brutality and racial violence came to light in Portugal, following a continuous rise of the far-right popularity. The multiple sections and musical materials were generated from data and statistics regarding young men murdered in Portugal due to racial biases.

It's an antiracist graffiti due to the heavy protest core to the whole work, as well as some appropriation of someone else’s property, with all the “destroyed” direct and indirect quotations of melodies, chords, harmonies, etc., with a programmatic connection to this works, such as Alabama by John Coltrane, Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday, or Freedom by Rage Against the Machine; the title is a direct reference to one of the verses of this last song.