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  <author>Shopify</author>
  <body-html>&lt;p&gt;Entranced by the nightlife and modern music of Manhattan, I frequent nightclubs and bars, where I feel the need for a change in expression to escape from daily life. This led me to discover new ways to express abstraction; therefore, I mold acrylic on canvas, trying to capture the essence of the soul with unending lines, opening a door to provide an entrance to a different world of color, form, balance and concept to the imagination of the audience and running away from what our senses have known, transporting us to another dimension.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I am convinced that we are all on an individual mission in life. I think my mission is to give the best of my creativity to express myself through art. I feel that my body serves as a vehicle to connect my spirit with Mother Nature. Art fills the emptiness that materialism left on me, and helps me to see the world in a more sensitive way, to discover beauty and energetic power in more simple things. It also charges my body with energy to fit to this world. I believe that if I manage and cultivate what I like to do without expecting anything back, I will not be betrayed. It is what makes me love this life. It seems like my work is a path to experience the expansion of my soul, in the infinite force of the universe.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;- &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Alex Franco&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</body-html>
  <created-at type="datetime">2009-04-20T22:14:55-07:00</created-at>
  <handle>about-us</handle>
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  <published-at type="datetime">2009-04-20T22:14:55-07:00</published-at>
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  <title>About the Artist</title>
  <updated-at type="datetime">2009-05-13T18:34:13-07:00</updated-at>
  <body>Entranced by the nightlife and modern music of Manhattan, I frequent nightclubs and bars, where I feel the need for a change in expression to escape from daily life. This led me to discover new ways to express abstraction; therefore, I mold acrylic on canvas, trying to capture the essence of the soul with unending lines, opening a door to provide an entrance to a different world of color, form, balance and concept to the imagination of the audience and running away from what our senses have known, transporting us to another dimension.

I am convinced that we are all on an individual mission in life. I think my mission is to give the best of my creativity to express myself through art. I feel that my body serves as a vehicle to connect my spirit with Mother Nature. Art fills the emptiness that materialism left on me, and helps me to see the world in a more sensitive way, to discover beauty and energetic power in more simple things. It also charges my body with energy to fit to this world. I believe that if I manage and cultivate what I like to do without expecting anything back, I will not be betrayed. It is what makes me love this life. It seems like my work is a path to experience the expansion of my soul, in the infinite force of the universe.

- *_Alex Franco_*</body>
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