“Believe in destiny. We are all on earth to fulfill a destiny. I was 17 when I was taken one day to the sculptor Humberto Cozzo´s atelier. I came from a small town called Taquara, in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul, where I was born. There, there were neither museums nor sculptures… it was then and there that I immediately felt upon entering Humberto Cozzo´s atelier, saying that this was what I wanted to be and do”