This Mexican ceramicist has no formal training — and he's blind. Yet he continues to surprise family and friends with his extraordinary ability to make stunning clay art.
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00:00I did not give in to despair, to be sad and bitter.
00:16When I saw, I think I could not make figures like now.
00:20And I discovered that the touch, the sense, the ear answered me and I started to work.
00:37I feel that now I see, but through my hands, because the truth is that with the touch I can make figures as if I saw with my sight.
00:50Maestro José García is an icon for Oaxacan folk art.
01:03The level of detail that we find in his work is also really inspiring to us to give him spaces like this for recognition and exhibition.