Between 1975 and 1976, Clarice Lispector dedicated herself to painting, without any professional ambition. Maybe that is why she never exhibited what she produced. In her paintings, one can see some recurrences, such as gestural treatment, attachment to matter, intense coloring, and the refusal of defined contours. Thus, the flagrant predilection for circularity often assumes the aspect of an amoeba, but such a shape rejects demarcations and the very idea of form: rather, it is presented as its imminence, the prehistory of a form. In Explosão [Explosion], Escuridão e luz: centro da vida [Darkness, and Light: Center of Life] and Medo [Fear], the amoeboid figure is central. In other paintings, such as Caos/ Metamorfose/ Sem sentido [Chaos/ Metamorphosis/ Meaningless], it appears laterally or more diluted, in addition to participating in the arrangements that allude to caves, such as Gruta [Cave] and Interior de gruta [Cave Interior].