jose manuel castro. cars all his works in stone. ah, mirror us, my relationship to stones isn't really physical. is my, it's magical in your because i feel the stones in a very special way, almost 2 years as if they obeyed me around the homeless here. yeah. and we had a kind of relationship to like, a friendship, young the, me star, jose manuel castro, trained as a stonemason and sculptor in the 1980 s, at the scholar. they can terrace, and alicia, northwestern, spain. it is known as one of the country's best schools for stone masonry put on the ration culture has a profound relationship with stone. from the megalithic, monumental cathedral. alas, for the work i do of stone is based on this close relationship subtleness and me. and she, me there, i see it is something living you know, that he was the sculptor drugs inspiration from the galatian country side and whether being coastline. ready here, wind and water, the forces of nature, work the stone and create bizarre shapes. jose manuel castro's workshop is in the village. a villa

jose manuel castro's workshop is in the village. a village this to so near the atlantic coast here he chisels grimes and stands out, the smooth flowing surfaces of his stone sculptures with power tools as well as painstakingly by hand. he gives the stone a finishing patina with sarah chloride high temperatures. we've been move, we've always been good at drawing well that other and i made models for a long time. the next are how stop it all. but you also need a good imagination, which is you must feel fuse, his neighbors know what he does for living. and as some of his sculptures have been exhibited around the world, like this work in granite titled union aperitif, or conspicuous union. or works combined with what i passed through often worked with montagnier a blackstone commonly found in the region. ah, ah, this is where he comes to wind down after a long, hard day's work. yeah. oh no, i don't scope because i find a relaxing because i feel the urge to do that. but it's exhausting. physically taxing and wires, a lot of dedication wa