Artist Information:
Nelson Da Costa
Boston, MA
United States
Member Since: Jan 2005
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Artist Statement:
I was born in Angola,
South-West Africa. A 27 year
long bloody civil war left me
at age 11 as an orphan. I got
shot and almost lost my right
arm to it. Part of my
emotional and physical
recovery drawing and painting
came as a result of it. At 14
years I left my native country
and went to Cuba. I never
returned to Angola. I finished
High School, attended a
Teacher’s College and went on
to earn a BA degree in Special
Needs Education in Cuba. I
immigrated to the U.S. in
2002.
The creative process of
painting is like a door to
another world-the spiritual
world of my past. Art is an
immensely important part of my
life and with it I have been
rebuilding myself. My
paintings are an outlet for
hundreds of stored images in
my head of fear, death,
starvation, diseases, war and
persecution of my traumatic
childhood in Angola. Other
images recall the early
security and later search for
love, family and spirituality.
Before I got shot, I already
loved drawing- with a wooden
stick in sand and with pieces
of carbon on walls. Subjects
of my artwork are ...
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Nelson Da Costa's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Nelson Da Costa's Portfolio. Browse Da Costa's body of work: I was born in Angola, South-West Africa. A 27 year long bloody civil war left me at age 11 as an orphan. I got shot and almost lost my right arm to it. Part of my emotional and physical recovery drawing and painting came as a result of it. At 14 years I left my native country and went to Cuba. I never returned to Angola. I finished High School, attended a Teacher’s College and went on to earn a BA degree in Special Needs Education in Cuba. I immigrated to the U.S. in 2002.
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