{"id":1033,"date":"2026-10-24T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/nature-as-part-of-my-life\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T15:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T18:01:41","slug":"nature-as-part-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/nature-as-part-of-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature as Part of My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When I reflect on nature, I recognize that it never entered my art as a late concept or mere aesthetic subject. It is the foundation of my existence, my personal upbringing, and my way of experiencing the world. My relationship with the elements, the land, water, and stone is a biographical construction rooted in hard work, family dedication, and a deep gratitude to God and the universe for the experiences granted to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My early childhood memories lead back to Guara\u00fana farm, in Vieira, in the municipality of Palmeira, a property that belonged to my grandfather Lyzis Isfer and his brothers. There, as well as in our daily life with animals on the country property and coastal routines, I learned from an early age to respect the cycles of life and the strength of the land. Nothing was taken for granted. I witnessed the relentless work of my family on the Paran\u00e1 coast, in Guaratuba and Balne\u00e1rio Atami, in Pontal do Paran\u00e1. My father took on the demanding technical and hands on responsibility of urbanizing, subdividing, and developing the area, an entrepreneurial effort built over years through courage, vision, and daily commitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Living on the coast throughout the entire year, rather than just during summer vacations, meant experiencing nature in its fullness and rigor. I began surfing at the age of seven, a discipline that taught me to read currents, face the ocean\u2019s challenges, and remain grounded before natural forces. The coastal woods, the Serra do Mar, and the Atlantic Forest framing the journey between Curitiba and the ocean served as the setting for an active youth defined by conscious exploration and constant movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My connection to stones also began in childhood, linked to simplicity and affection. As the first grandchild on both sides of the family, I saw my grandmother making great efforts to bring gifts for an ever growing family. Out of consideration for her effort, I began asking her for a simple stone picked up from the ground, chosen with care. That simple gesture became a lifelong habit. Long before taking up the hammer and chisel to sculpt, I spent years gathering stones from the places I visited around the world, including Greece, Turkey, Portugal, Spain, the Maldives, and New Zealand. Each mineral element kept preserves the memory of a territory and the testimony of a real experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pursuit of knowledge and personal growth led me to live abroad. At sixteen I lived in Switzerland. Later, after completing my studies in Visual Arts, I lived in Portugal from 1999 to 2008 and in New Zealand from 2008 to 2010. Working, adapting to new cultures, and building an international path required resilience. In New Zealand, the abundant forests and stacked stones along the paths awakened in me a spiritual and mystical awareness of matter, a subject I intend to explore deeply in future writings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upon returning to Curitiba in December 2009, I turned to high intensity swimming to maintain my daily commitment to physical endurance and the water. Joining the masters team at Clube Curitibano, I trained rigorously for open water events, competing in distances of 1,500, 3,000, and up to 7,000 meters. This same drive for endurance led me to mountaineering in the Atlantic Forest and to the landscape of Campos Gerais at our family country property in S\u00e3o Luiz do Purun\u00e3, in Balsa Nova.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I began sculpting stone professionally in 2023, I was not starting something new, but rather expressing a process prepared over a lifetime. The stone, the sea, the mountain, and the land are not isolated subjects. They are the record of a journey marked by work, perseverance, respect for divine creation, and profound gratitude, elements that form the essence of my practice as a visual artist. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I reflect on nature, I recognize that it never entered my art as a late concept or mere aesthetic subject. It is the foundation of my existence, my personal upbringing, and my way of experiencing the world. My relationship with the elements, the land, water, and stone is a biographical construction rooted in hard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonisfer.art\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}