Friday, July 24, 2009

FBS is born


As a collector I collect lifesized pieces. I enjoy them so much that i got to talking to other lifesize collectors. Most of them had the same complaints, no one does the pieces that they really want.

I set out to begin FBS. I am a sculptor as well, but my skills are no where near the very good sculptors of our country. I needed some one very very good. We took a trip to the town of Paete and there i went to look for a Sculptor who can do the pieces that we want. I wasnt easy cause before you can find someone your happy with you first have go through others who dont really fit the bill.

Back to my PAETE trip. I was asking around and I met this young man who really just looks like a boy. He was tending shop and beside him where the most beautiful portrait sculpts i have ever seen. I approached the young boy and asked him where was the man who did those works. He answered that he was the one who did these pieces. I was in Awe, Apparently he has been sculpting since the age of 8. He is extremely good and through proper direction he could only get better. I decided to pay him twice what he was making and thats how FBS was born. His name was Gemmo Villaverde. In a little town in Laguna. Barely the size of Glorrietta and Greenbelt. I remember walking through that town and being taken back by the sights and sounds. Thank you PAETE.

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