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Kintsugi Art Installation Painting each portrait, looking at pictures very closely and rebuilding each glance, smile, gesture that it was vanished with time. After forty years, I became the portraits.  Taking as a protagonist the Buddhist precept "Niuga, ganiu".  "I enter, enter myself". Putting some parts of myself after reading Andrés Asato's book "No Sabían que Eramos Semillas" written about the seventeen Japanese-Argentinean "desaparecidos/disappeared" in Argentina during the 70's dictatorship that killed thirty thousand of its citizens. I also had the chance to talk directly with the relatives of many of the "desaparecidos *Nikkei"for more insights and anecdotes. With each brush stroke, I was trying to let go some of that emptiness that flooded the lives of the families touched by the tragedy of having a "disappeared" person. I took the responsibility to make my father and the other sixteen, to become real