For two years after the 2017 wildfires in Portugal, de Villiers drew the family’s burnt and distorted power-tools — a drill, an angle grinder, a water pump, an electric saw — salvaged from the scorched chaos around Ponte d’Arte.

The corrosive marks, contorted shapes and the tints left by debris, smoke and the ensuing rain compelled her to record the disaster. These aftermath drawings later became the basis for the embroidered textile Beyond an Inferno.

Shown at Feito & re-Feito / Made & Remade, Garagem Exhibition Centre, Ponte da Mucela (2024).