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In Belize he said, “It was a great experience  I’ve worked all over the world except for Australia. I am very, very happy to be here and to do work for the Belizean people.” He was inspired by the ancient Mayan culture which he compares to Egyptian and Asian cultures. A deeply spiritual man, for him Mayan art has a deep soul, it is alive and radiates vitality.


 in 1960. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in sculpture and a Master of Arts in stone restoration at the North(ern) Grigorescu Fine Arts Academy


in Bucharest. He now works as a stone restorer in the European tradition at the County Museum of 


In his stone sculptures he often represents the pliability and lightness of paper. The paper he references implies the ephemerality of life. Smooth forms curl and curve out from the main body of the sculpture as though they have simply been bent or twisted outwards, whereas masses of stone around the curls have had to be cut away to achieve this effect. It is a great feat of his skill to do  The sweep of stone is light and airy and stunningly


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