23/10/2023
𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒍 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 - New people here, and I want to say hi to you and everyone, taking the opportunity to introduce myself and tell you a little about me.
Hi! My name is Elizandra, but you can call me “Liz”, and I have been connected with architecture, design, colours and textures since childhood. My first inspiration comes from my family: my parents and my grandparents. My father was a builder, and in addition to building and renovating houses, reading, paint, draw or create furniture. Living with it daily, one of my favourite hobbies was playing around the buildings and exploring the spaces at the same time as my father working - I kept asking him to take me to work with him -, and when I got home, I tried to draw the floor plans for the houses and apartments I visited, which I spent hours leafing through and imagining what my house would look like; of course, I tried to create and design my floor plan.
Another source of inspiration came from my paternal grandmother, through beautiful explosions of colours and textures behind her fabrics. My grandmother was a professional dressmaker, and I loved to see her sewing gorgeous dresses full of colours and textures. My second favourite pastime was sewing clothes for my dolls. I have so many good memories of my childhood doing these two things I loved the most.
My mother was a nurse, and her parents were farmers. I learned from them to love and respect others and nature and every single form of life it inhabits. I love being in the forests and listening to the sounds of animals, birds, and wind.
I spent my school holidays on the farm, and there, my favourite playtime was finding a perfect guava tree near the little rill and finding the ideal rocks to build a small rock house under the tree.
I have so many beautiful and precious memories from my childhood that I can share with you another time.
