Sam Dougados
Peripheral ARTeries
To art even if it was not an easy way. It was like an hidden evidence for me you see clearly when you are free of everything! If I had known it before, I would have done art studies for sure to bring me skills, knowledge I'm learning by myself now. Art school and art diploma are a key to open some heavy doors like art instituations, galleries like if you were better from an art school! I think art school teach you how to create more with your brain and when you're a self taught artist, you probably create more with your heart! Both are importante but formal training may influence your creativity, inspiration more on an intellectual way at the expense of feelings!
Under the Lightning
He fought a lot to not only stay in life but have a descent one with many kind of pleasures, the kind of ones we forget easily and don't see in our fast life. I think, years after, that all this past increased and developed a lot my sensibility, my taste for nature and life in general. I started to write poems when I was a teenage, adult I tryed to paint, then sculpt; that was a way to materialize my emotions and curiosity; I did it naturally and the positive feedback encourage me to continue. I presented some sculptures for a first collective show in Spacejunk Gallery in 2006 and in 2008, when I lost my last job (and girlfriend at the same time), I decided to think for myself, do what I wanted, make me pleasure and involved me 100% in-
Pac Man
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