A beautiful hindu legend narrates us that, in a remote era, all men were bearers of divine powers. However, their frequent abuse of the detained ability excited Brahma's anger. The mighty God decided to punish the misuse of the capacities by suppressing and concealing them in a place where certainly men at no time could imagine to find out. He hid their powers deep inside themselves. Since then, man does not cease to try to discover outside something that is locked within himself.

BIO
Biographical Sketch: I was born in Lisbon, I am 44 years old, studied sculpture, participated in art exhibitions, regularly write essays in various Portuguese publications, wrote programmes on anthropological themes to a classical music radio station, a book about Asian theatre and dance and teach at a state art school. To find alternative artistic approaches and solutions, I started to explore digital resources. Occasional notes about my images: My images are uneasy to define by words, are images that throw thoughts into confusion or into disorder. I try to elaborate compositions that renounce clear meanings, forms that reject transparency, alienated by multiple allusions. Like remains of intentions, my images enhance and explore formal collaborative influences, puzzling and unexpected associations, unpredictable connections, shifting margins, sudden surprises, streams of arbitrary order. I try to maintain aesthetic incommodity and instability in the mind of the viewer. Even if we find something recognizable (heads, bodies, buildings, landscapes), it must be felt as something that cannot break the paradox of human thinking, a perplexing brain process only capable of releasing more or less plausible and persuasive simulacra. The recognizable does not pretend to evocate concrete memories. Comes forth enigmatically as an unpredictable mimetic accident, a particular decision of a demanding mind in which immense groundless assumptions are potentially disposable. I understand these works as consequences of a creative stratagem with no previous established ideas, with no previous certainties, as searches, discoveries and surprises raised into view during shaping and modelling, resisting to clear explanations. Loosing convincing realistic impact, identifiable forms are felt as opened, uncertain, deceiving and polyvalent. Synaesthetic, holistic, transversal, void of obvious significances, forms suggest a sponge quality, a natural aptness to absorb, to be receptive and reactive to every stimulus. Insinuate an anxious tendency to experiencing transmutation, are grasped by a disposition to fusion, overtaken by a propensity to osmosis. Like clouds, do not seem to be anything more than a morphological existence desirous to be imbued, inclined to permeability, to mutation, to blurring, to casual transfigurations, to heterogeneous cohesion. Bodies, architectures and landscapes are submitted by a creative process in which are caught by luxurious tensions, compressions, intersections, multiple allusions, satisfying a sensuous need to find a configurative outcome, a quest for different manners to find incomprehensibility of feeling and of thought. To see more works, please go to http://www.podgallery.com/index.cfm/hurl/msgId=929/action=artwork To hear my music, please go to http://www.funender.com/music/bands/5355/