
I gave the name Bichos [Critters] to my works of this period, because their characteristics are fundamentally organic. Furtermore, the hinge between the planes reminds me of a backbone. The arrangement of metal plates determines the positions of the Bicho, which at first glance seems unlimited. When asked how many moves a Bicho can make, I reply, "I don't know, you don't know, but it knows." ...Each Bicho is an organic entity that fully reveals itself within its inner time of expression...It is a living organism, a work essentially active. A full integration, existential, is established between it and us.
Lygia Clark, 1960