I was born June 25 in 1945, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I studied Political Science in college for three years in order to go to law school upon graduation. During my senior year, I reconsidered my plans and decided that becoming an artist was a better, and perhaps more effective, way of achieving my goals. I started studying art and music from books, which I would buy, borrow, or view in the library. I taught myself to play the flute and developed some good notions about color harmony and drawing from those books.I began by making wire sculptures, which I painted florescent colors and liked the results so much that I began to draw them in order to keep some record of them. At the same time, I began studying art from library books in order to broaden my skills. To this day (30 years later), I am still an art student.

Inventing has come naturally to me since I was little; I'm was always looking for a faster more effective way to do everything. The first invention that I recall was substituting a propeller for a sail in a toy sailboat so that the wind would hit it, make it gyrate. With a pulley system attached to a smaller propeller in the bottom of the boat, it would be thrust forward and sail.

See more of his work at: www.shoeart.net & www.myspace.com/shoeart