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“I didn’t learn with anyone. My teachers were God and my own will, because without will you can’t do a thing.” That’s how Antônio Machado explains why he’s spent the last 26 years making things with bits of wood he finds laying about. He collects all sorts of material and uses them to build things. “My art is for living. It’s not for making me rich. I’ve worked a lot with wood. I’ve made many decorated ceilings for houses with 4 or 5 images in relief. Do you know what that means? Everything made by hand. There was no electricsaw. I had to retire because of high blood pressure but what really made me ill was not having anything to do. So I started looking after a beach house. There was a pine tree in front of the house and the dried pines cones fell in dozens. I wanted to make something, so took one, gave it a neck, a tail and wings. It was a chicken. My mind started to open up. To make something is to be human. Man has a computer in his mind, and doesn’t realise it. Do you want to know what I think? We might not be the same in desire, or in colour, but we must learn to love each other. That’s what my art does.” Antônio Machado was born in Florianópolis, in 1928. |
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