face Painting

the story of madami once upon a time... ...there was a little boy who realised he was tired of being an adult. his name is madami and i met him a few years ago with the feeling that we had met before. he was a bit tired of working and with a certain sadness on his face. maybe that sadness was a consequence of seeing that most people were not enjoying life as much as they should, including me. i was born in Portugal and have always tried to follow my own path. it took me to quit university in Lisbon to go and study in London, and then to live in Brazil for just over a year. after coming back to Portugal, it was time to start working. although I was having fun working in advertising and media and increasingly enjoying creative work i was also feeling a lack of creative freedom as my interest in art and photography was growing everyday. at first i tried to take art as a hobby in my free hours but madami was not really satisfied with that insufficient time and not a full heart, mind and soul dedication to what he wanted to create. he kept trying to convince me that i had to dedicate myself exclusively to art and that i should quit my job. at any moment in time it was a crazy and absurd idea but this was happening most intensely between 2010 and 2011 whilst the world and Portugal in particular were in a deepening of the economic crisis. i tried to persuade madami that this was a ridiculous idea not only because of the economic situation but also because i had no background education in art and no technical knowledge in photography... ...but it was pointless! that little boy is impossible to convince. in reality, he is much stronger, braver and fearless than me. he believes in dreams and angels, he is not afraid to fail, and he is willing to take risks and experimenting because he knows that that is the way he learns and that that is the way you grow up as a human being. and so he won the fight! in may 2011 i had quit my job to dedicate myself to art and photography. madami is quite close friends with some angels and some of the most interesting souls that have lived. Agostinho da Silva, Padre António Vieira, Leonardo Da Vinci, Damon Albarn and Fernando Pessoa are some of the souls that have influenced him the most. madami hopes you enjoy his creations and i will leave you with a translation of a poem by Alvaro de Campos, one of Fernando Pessoa's heteronyms.