ART

DUENDE IS, before all,

A CREATIVE PLACE TO EXPLORE

BACKGROUND:

Duende means the power to attract through personal magnetism and charm. A quality of passion and inspiration. A spirit.

The word duende refers to a spirit in Spanish, Portuguese, and Filipino folklore and literally means "ghost" or "goblin" in Spanish. It is believed to derive from the phrase "dueño de casa," which means "owner of a house." The term is traditionally used in flamenco music or other art forms to refer to the mystical or powerful force given off by a performer to draw in the audience. The Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca wrote in his essay "Teoria y Juego del Duende" ("Play and Theory of the Duende") that duende "is a power and not a behavior . . . a struggle and not a concept." Nowadays the term appears in a broader range of contexts to refer to one's unspoken charm or allure.

YOUR HOSTS

We are not Spanish, but I am sure somewhere we could find Spanish blood in our DNA. We are simply 2 artists specializing in photographs, paintings, sculpture, and other plastic visual mediums who settled in this beautiful region of Australia.

Names are just little tags but you can call us Ape and Anais. Ape was born and raised in Morocco from a French background and started his life in Australia in 1972. Anais was born and raised in France but spent most of her adult life in Montreal Canada before moving to Australia.

We are happy to be able to welcome you to our parcel of paradise, hoping it will inspire and feed your imagination.

Please feel free to wander in these websites where we showcase some of our dreams.