We’ve always been the outcast, the odd ones. We’d never fit in. Didn’t matter when or where. 

Ethnically, we were always odd — while Brazil is considered pretty diverse, still we managed to be a little more different than usual. With a unique blend from immigrant parents, growing up we’ve always been quirky, culturally didn’t quite fit in with the average Brazilians, we weren’t quite white, brown, nor Asian. We were made fun of for speaking other languages and slowly spoke less and less over the years.

We would usually kind of fit in with the nerds, but then those were usually boys and so we didn’t quite fit in either. When we’d travel to meet family, we also didn’t quite fit in, after all we were inserted in a different context, different country, different language and culture.

Growing up in this scenario, we’ve grown used to simply not fitting in, not belonging. It’s never been about skin colour, or language, or culture, but instead, a multitude of it all and beyond. Fortunately God sent the two of us together so that we wouldn’t feel so alone.

We’ve had to accept that we’ve always been different, it is part of our dharma, our life journey.

Nowadays when the world is more international, the differences become less about external aspects and more about inner aspects of Self. Here, it is the world of ideas, thought patterns and world perspectives. Again, we still don’t fit in with the average groupthink. We don’t follow the status quo, the politically correct/engineered narratives.

After not having “fit in” our entire lives for simply being born from a different paradigm, it could only be expected that we think differently from the norm. In fact, growing up we’ve been judged so many times for being, thinking and acting differently that when we got to our teens and into our early twenties we were extremely shy and unsure about ourselves.

Since being ourselves was socially not okay, for too long we wanted to hide, affecting our body postures, creating scoliosis, jaw issues which required surgery and a variety of chronic diseases. The journey of healing has been all about returning back to Self — self acceptance, finding our voice again, speaking up instead of bottling up our thoughts, ideas and emotions.

Fact is that we are innately different, odd, unique. We will never fit in. We will never conform. Those censoring free thought nowadays are the same bullies we’ve encountered our entire lives.

We are done lessening ourselves because our existence makes others uncomfortable.

All the challenges and hardships we’ve gone through brought us where we are. Our work is a manifestation of this journey, and if anything, we believe our work speaks for itself. The polarities, the multidimensionality, the exoticism, the unusual: it’s all there in our architectural, design and artistic language. There’s a lot in the works to be materialised, and we have grand visions towards creating the New Golden Era. We don’t say this lightly, although many stuck in the existing material realm don’t have the Eye to understand it.

This message is to those who, like us, don’t fit in, and deep down know there is something not right, yearn for change, for a new way of Life. Those who, like Terence McKenna once said, “want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”

Know this: You may be ahead of your time. You may be the change that the New World requires. You are not alone. They may be louder now, but we grow stronger in the long run. This is only the beginning.

All the love. All the power. All the wonder.

We are not of this time.

Our roots are ancient,

our fire is eternal.

Truth & authenticity will prevail.