When we entered the studio, expectations were set aside in favor of listening. Rather than directing the music, we embraced every moment, giving it room to find its own pace and to unfold through the creative process. Allowing our voices to intertwine, we were sustained only through mutual attention, sometimes fragile and light, at other times fierce and intense. Only then did we perceive the “Pygmalion Effect (in other words… a Tropical Porcupine),” not as a guiding force, but as a shared, shimmering form that appears when the “one” dissolves and a genuine “us” quietly comes into being.
Gabrielle Mitelli, Aruán Ortiz and Silvia Bolognesi. December 30, 2025
