After my father's death in 1990 and the outbreak of the 1994 armed conflict in Chiapas, we returned to Paris since the economy collapsed in the state and there were'nt any good - paying jobs for my mother. We spent a year in Paris, living in a mostly arab neighbourhood, attending to French grade school, learning French and visiting the city, in which my mother spent most of her life.
In 1995, we moved to the place my grandmother used to live in Poland, located in the Warsaw outskirts. I attended French high school here and started painting graffiti. It eventually led me to some trouble with the police, but nothing too serious. A year before applying to art college. I started drawing and painting live models, on easels, traditional style art. Met a lot of people. I was accepted last year to art college and am now in my second year there.
Carlos Castanonl
I was born in Paris in 1984, to Mexican and Polish parents Shortly after.we emigrated to my father's home town in Mexico, Tuxtla Gutierrez, state capital of Chiapas. Spent ten years there, attending to both Mexican and American grade schools, travelling around the country and occasionally flying back to Europe to visit my mother's family.
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