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Born in Goiás, Ednaldo Queiroz has always been involved with craft work. He used to make handbags and watching his grandmother he learned to make embroidery and crochet. “I became a upholsterer, a profession that is truly an art if the work is well done.”
Today, Ednaldo manages a bar and a restaurant, and between lunch and dinner he makes models in cardboard. “The first sculpture I ever made started with a cardboard square. I carried it around trying to change its shape and it happened. I then made it big, for a company, in iron sheet 10, using car paint.”
His greatest impetus came from his father, Jaime Braz Macedo. Ednaldo says that after hearing from everyone he finally went to see the work of Amilcar de Castro, in an exhibition. “I was amazed. I also saw pieces by Cavalcanti. I never thought models could be turned into such things.” In his workshop, he carries on making models. “In Goiânia it’s difficult to live off art. Commerce is the strongest thing around. There are days in which I look at my stuff and find it beautiful, in others I don’t.” |
