Male Nude VI (2008) Tekening door Clara Almada

I think that what drives me to create art is unconscious. I don't know why I create art; I do it because it feels natural, soothing, necessary. It's exhilerating and calming at the same time. It's after that I rationalize my work, my intention, my goal.
When I was growing up, very exposed to art, I allways thougt I'd study painting. One day I realized that what really draws my attention is the fragment, usually not the whole. From then on, that became increasingly more apparent in my work. I endeng up studying sculpture because it felt natural, like it was my real path, and it's the perfect medium to work the fragment.
My inspirations are again very scattered, it's usually based on whatever caught my atention at some period in time. Sometimes, I work it months or even years after, and sometimes that inspiration comes back again for another go.
I had a highschool teacher, a painter, who said: An Artist has a job and a profession; The job is what you do to survive and pay for your profession. I think that somewhere along the way I got lost in my job and almost forgot my profession. Now I rediscovered the sheer joy of my profession, how it makes me feel overjoyed and I feel galvanized to show it to as many people as possible, that's why I chose to use digital platforms. they have a wide number of viewers and are incresingly respected references in the new ways to sell art to an international public.

• Nationaliteit: PORTUGAL
• Geboortedatum : 1987
• Artistieke domeinen:
• Groepen: Hedendaagse Portugese Kunstenaars