Marcos Juan Quesada

  I was born in a frozen in time little village in Spain in the lately '60s.      

 Never asked for this place or age, but there I was a very sensitive and shy boy with plenty of imagination in the middle of a "macho man" culture.    

  My environment always insisted on making me a tough, grey and obscure man... while I was dreaming with the glamour of Marlene Dietrich and wishing to dance like Fred Astaire.    

  Actually, in our modern times, it is quite difficult to imagine that old world I had to face. Always feeling guilty for not being what I was expected to be, it took me a long time to understand that we only have one life, and although, I am still looking for my place under the sun, I never surrendered or left my dreams apart.      

Febrery 21 2026

I fear I was wrong again when I said it was impossible to imagine the past I lived through. In fact, it's still relevant today. After being here in my homeland for over 16 years, trying to build my entire inner world in a basement I own, I've been reported for an absurd fire hazard (I´m afraid envy in small places is childishly present every day). Local police showed up and forced the destruction of my entire world. It doesn't matter what I've created, despite always having everything against me. It seems some people around me in my birthplace will never tolerate other means and ways of seeing reality. (All information in my book "Arts & Crafts & Intolerance")

And I know that ordinary people cannot understand an artist, but for the current mayor's office to tolerate the destruction of my entire universe... where is their education and culture? Not to mention all the legacy and collections they have ignored, because their narrow-mindedness is not prepared to see other realities, and which Paris will inherit and appreciate in their proper measure.

Tired of so much injustice and to be marginalized to unprecedented extremes, I'm not going to fight any more losing battles. It already cost me a very severe depression from which I'm recovering, and I'm convinced that time and history will put things in their place.

I currently live in Paris, where I feel truly honored by the welcome and recognition I've received. .

Never again. I have learned my lesson well, although it has cost me so much: no one can fight against ignorance and win the battle.