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This portrait is part of a project called "los informales" taken from the streets of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia 2017. These are not homeless people, these are people who work spontaneous jobs on a day to day basis, which makes them even more interesting to me. However, there is a down side to their story, every single day they need to wake up ready for a new challenge, but sometimes the day does not offer much. Los Informales live by the expression: "Qué hay pa' hacer", which in our best effort to translate it into English would be "what's for today". This project is an acknowledgement to their enormous efforts because they are not good at only one job, they are good at everything.

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Men and image have remained together since the very beginning of the species, even above and beyond the fantastic daguerreotype introduced at the French Academy of Sciences, in 1839.
His work is a tribute to art and spirit, it is a mysterious alloy between mercury and silver. These images already existed since forever in his mind, they were alive even before his camera would shot. They are a genetic proof of the artist that resides in Mario’s soul, gravitate in the eye of his Cyclops, and fabricate the honey in his heart like the bees from Martin Tinajero’s, running wild like Fidias’s horses.

I have had the privilege of prefacing his genius, and I can only say:

He was a sculptor, engraver and embosser at the Athens of Pericles, and he is not asking for more fame than Lord Byron’s dog had, or even Polly Nichols, the first victim from the skilled ripper. His being does not admit vileness, and the beauty for him is a telescope that he uses to scan the horizon.

Boris Adolfo Bueno Loaiza
Caracas, October 23rd 2010

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