In this dissertation I cartograph distinct ways in which writing and, in a broader sense, the arts, relate to the notion of ruin. I begin at the point of tension between collapse and creation, to explore the paradox Maurice Blanchot speaks of in The Literary Space: Literature is built upon its own ruins. Holding the cartographic gesture in a particular region, I review works of the writer and visual artist Nuno Ramos as a favorable occasion to reflect on the relationship between destruction and creation on the border between written and visual language. The work follows two reciprocal axes, non-hierarchical: the first axis is emphasizes the theoretical and critical part of the research. In the second, it presents poems and other personal texts, writings produced during the research, and that are part of the reflection.