In her Toquinhos [Little Stubs], Schendel creates subtle layers and textures by gluing squares - colored or not - onto paper, accompanied by punctuation marks and letters. In her work, space is affirmed as a negative of what is printed, glued or drawn. Bense adds: “Her graphic reduction suspends the linguistic structure in favor of the pictorial. A letter behaves like a point, the chain of letters like a line, and several letter-lines determine surfaces, outlining them or opening them up in space.”