Seed Love and Harvest Good: Rafa Mattos at TEDxRecife

Rafa Mattos

Seed Love and Harvest Good Graphic artist born and raised in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, he came to live in Recife by love. Character of remarkable presence, wide smile and open heart, he lives his life by one guiding thought: love is the master feeling. He became known by spreading boards with drawings and phrases in the streets of Recife, encouraging people to "reflect about love". His works are produced from a crazy mining process, by someone who sees garbage as raw material, and from that art catharsis emerged the idea "Seed Love, Harvest Good", that wasn't born as a project, but turned up to be the project of his life. Rafa is today popularly known as "the guy of love".

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