“BodyShell II” (2021) evokes our own skin and body architecture as a place of change and decomposition, where the only “shelter” feeling comes from the acceptance of its transitional quality. “BodyShell II” recalls Heidi Bucher’s wearable sculptures “Bodyshells” (1972). Bucher created a few human scale portable homes with shapes inspired by sea animal bodies protected by shells, such as molluscs and shellfish. She was concerned with the houses as shells, stable places where we can feel protected. The material used for our photo series is part of an investigation we have been doing since 2016 with the cassava bioplastic. It is a versatile and homemade material recipe that can present multiple textures, reactions and material performance possibilities according to the ingredient’s proportions. These are materials that can present unstable or ephemeral behaviors. Specially from 2019, with the help of Francisco Guilherme Oliveira and Marco Machado (Tachimashiro), we could register a few results in which a variety of qualities could be observed, such as: very hard or gelified consistencies; deterioration by water immersion tested in a periods of three months or half an hour; very flexible or quite crumbly finishes; adaptability to adhere to different textures; availability to receive a diversity of coloring, between other properties. Among these features, its rapid decomposition and transitional attribute is the most compelling. We keep working on material tests and its changeability quality in order to use it during performative acts.