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I was born in Camagüey, Cuba, where I was exposed from an early age to different crafts through my family’s influence. My grandfather, a cobbler by trade and a renaissance man by necessity, used to carve the forms he needed to make shoes for us out of raw pieces of wood. Inspired by my grandfather and encouraged by the family I started carving my first pieces then. Our environment was also very conducive to creativity, because of the scarcity that we were experiencing most things had to be made from scratch, this made very clear the importance of processes, and that has become an integral part of my work. This early experiences and inclinations proved to be pivotal in my formation, though eventually I was educated as a classical, and contemporary dancer, once I left the Island in 2005, first to the US, and then to Canada, in that soul searching quest that usually comes with the very unsettling experience that is immigration, I felt the need to retain the voice of my creative nature and began to revisit those early tendencies and memories. Slowly at first I started almost without knowing a visual arts career and practice that I have been cultivating for almost twenty years.
My work revolves around the quest for the self and is informed by an interest in stories, mythology, symbolism, and the Transcendental. Over the years I have realized that a laborious art practice can be a major healing and balancing mechanism as it has proven to be for me, this amazing process of what I call “creation through self-discovery” is a path and a way of life that can bring about peace and change. My intention is to practice and create a kind of art that heals and transmits a conscious and evolutionary frequency.
More info:
Website: https://timurnapoles.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moebiusarts