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"I like to define my paintings about animals and monsters as 'non-human' self-portraits.
I try to imagine the first sailor’s feelings, that made bizarre portraits of the animals they got to know on their trips. Maybe they portrayed them in this odd way because of the strong and deep impact of that visions. Or for the desire to affect as deeply the other people who hadn’t had the opportunity to see them personally.
I like the antitheses of fear-fascination, beauty-nightmarish, sweet-terrible.
Some of my recent illustrations are my visual interpretation of characters from Mario de Andrade’s  (modernist writer) Macunaíma.
And the others maybe can be a start for new stories."