Luís Camões

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The studio is on Rua dos Lusíadas. That name comes from Os Lusíadas — the epic poem Camões wrote about Portugal's Age of Discoveries. The one every Portuguese schoolchild has been forced to read for five hundred years, whether they wanted to or not. Antonio and his brother made this to mark the anniversary. Four hands, one piece. The figure on it is studying. Bent over the text. Trying to understand, five centuries later, what any of it has to do with the country he's living in now. It's a joke. It's also not. The first one sold to a woman who gifted it to her husband, a navy man. Camões was a navy man too. The only one left of its kind. Show more