“The Garden” (2016) uses close-up images of flowers and plants with distinct shapes and strong saturation. By merging different types together, both complementary and contrasting, the collages create mesmerising images alluding to strange new types of flora. As Dourado says, it’s “a two dimensional dialogue between slices of images” resulting in “a weird visual experience”. Composition-wise, the idea of a labyrinth, which the artist often uses in his work, both brings out the plants’ natural maze-like morphology and evokes, as the work titles suggest, “a maze of memories, dreams and illusions”.
 

Dourado has always been intrigued by the moon —as a child he used to sneak into the balcony in the middle of the night to stare at it— and the “Moons” (2016) series is his take on its power to captivate us. Unlike “The Garden” collages that combine two or more pictures, each digital print of this series is made out of a single image of the moon. The manipulation is very precise and mathematical, with no element added or subtracted from the original picture. Although immediately recognisable, the new images present a fictional moon, a transmuted planet that retains the original’s characteristics but behaves unexpectedly, with "each artwork witnessing a bizarre episode” in its life.