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		<title>Law of Reflexes Lamp</title>
		<link>http://www.almarte.com/2010/07/29/law-of-reflexes-lamp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Paula</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lamp shade giving true significance to the six-pointed star]]></description>
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		<title>Glauco</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Paula</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stained Glass Mosaique fish figure. Represents the strength of nature]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stained Glass Mosaique fish figure. Represents the strength of nature, and its name, belongs to a God of the ocean. Its top part spins! This was delivered to Boston, MA where the owner sent this message back to me. &#8220;Maria, this is without doubt the most amazing piece of art furniture I have seen. It looks absolutely gorgeous in our living area and everyone comments on how incredible it is, thank you for your spectacular work!</p>
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		<title>Crisalida</title>
		<link>http://www.almarte.com/2010/07/29/crisalida/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Paula</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hand-crafted lamp shade. Pieces made on resins. It respresents a butterfly cocoon. It also represents Native&#8217;s colors, from the earth. Warm light shines through this magnficent lamp.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hand-crafted lamp shade. Pieces made on resins. It respresents a butterfly cocoon. It also represents Native&#8217;s colors, from the earth. Warm light shines through this magnficent lamp.</p>
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		<title>Custom Mosaique Designs for Fun Spaces</title>
		<link>http://www.almarte.com/2010/07/29/custom-mosaique-designs-for-fun-spaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Paula</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These tables and the Octopus Mural, where specially designed for a customer in Pereira, another city in Colombia. We placed six , unique , fun and usable tables, around the pool area. They all spin .]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These tables and the Octopus Mural, where specially designed for a customer in Pereira, another city in Colombia. We placed six , unique , fun and usable tables, around the pool area. They all spin . </p>
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		<title>Fiesta Lamp</title>
		<link>http://www.almarte.com/2010/07/29/fiesta-lamp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Paula</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lamp shade made on resins, and glass fiber. Its names speaks for itself!!!]]></description>
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		<title>UFO Table</title>
		<link>http://www.almarte.com/2010/07/29/ufo-table/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Paula</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This table signfies space, the sun, and black holes that every galaxy contains. Stained-glass mosaique, and resins.]]></description>
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		<title>Tree Trunk Table</title>
		<link>http://www.almarte.com/2010/01/07/tree-trunk-table/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Paula</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tree trunk used in resins, is a concept of transforming things that are already created, either by nature or humans, and give them another meaning . It was pretty fun doing all this, for it is made out of nakar shells, in petal shape , and decided to convert them into four petaled yellow [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The tree trunk used in resins, is a concept of transforming things that are already created, either by nature or humans, and give them another meaning . It was pretty fun doing all this, for it is made out of nakar shells, in petal shape , and decided to convert them into  four petaled yellow flowers. These flowers are worked in resins, on the upper top of the tree trunk&#8217;s faces. Worked in two different layers, it gives the flowers a sense of dimension and movement. </p>
<p>Almost as if they were floating on air. The rest of the trunk, is accompanied by stainless steel pieces, that make up the glass&#8217;s supports. </p>

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<a href='http://www.almarte.com/2010/01/07/tree-trunk-table/tree3/' title='Almarte Tree Trunk'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/tree3-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Almarte Tree Trunk" title="Almarte Tree Trunk" /></a>
<a href='http://www.almarte.com/2010/01/07/tree-trunk-table/almarte_trunk_close/' title='Almarte Tree Trunk'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/almarte_trunk_close-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Almarte Tree Trunk" title="Almarte Tree Trunk" /></a>
<a href='http://www.almarte.com/2010/01/07/tree-trunk-table/tree4/' title='Almarte Tree Trunk'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/tree4-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Almarte Tree Trunk" title="Almarte Tree Trunk" /></a>
<a href='http://www.almarte.com/2010/01/07/tree-trunk-table/64-2/' title='Almarte Tree Trunk'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/64-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Almarte Tree Trunk" title="Almarte Tree Trunk" /></a>
<a href='http://www.almarte.com/2010/01/07/tree-trunk-table/tree1-2/' title='Almarte Tree Trunk'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/tree11-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Almarte Tree Trunk" title="Almarte Tree Trunk" /></a>
<a href='http://www.almarte.com/2010/01/07/tree-trunk-table/58-2/' title='Almarte Tree Trunk'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/58-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Almarte Tree Trunk" title="Almarte Tree Trunk" /></a>
<a href='http://www.almarte.com/2010/01/07/tree-trunk-table/59-2/' title='Almarte Tree Trunk'><img width="150" height="150" src="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/59-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="Almarte Tree Trunk" title="Almarte Tree Trunk" /></a>

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		<title>Law of Reflexes Lamp Shade</title>
		<link>http://www.almarte.com/2009/09/01/star-of-david-lamp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Paula</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Project, Law of Reflexes Lamp Shade. New Project, Law of Reflexes Lamp Shade. New Project, Law of Reflexes Lamp Shade. New Project, Law of Reflexes Lamp Shade. New Project, Law of Reflexes Lamp Shade]]></description>
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		<title>The Metamorphosis of Things&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.almarte.com/2008/07/29/the-metamorphosis-of-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Paula</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last twelve years, we have been studying the different types of resins that exist, combining them with stained-glass mosaique. Since there are around 300 different types of resin. Believe me fellows, the experience learned has not been in vain! It took us a lot of work, and errors, to get to make all [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the last twelve years, we have been studying the different types of resins that exist, combining them with stained-glass mosaique. Since there are around 300 different types of resin. Believe me fellows, the experience learned has not been in vain! It took us a lot of work, and errors, to get to make all my materials work together in harmony.Since we never repeat an art piece , in our workshop , there is always a new , different project going on. So many times our art pieces, may take a bit of extra days for their experiments to work for us. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/almarte-taller-2.jpg"><img src="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/almarte-taller-2-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="almarte taller 2" width="300" height="225" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-209" /></a></p>
<p>I also had to initialize a lot of exercises of sensibility with my two employees, so that they could connect themselves with their inner artist, and their sensibility. When these abilities began to flourish, our art pieces would make more sense to them, and they would take more life, and better finishings. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/alex-trabajando-2.jpg"><img src="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/alex-trabajando-2-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="alex trabajando 2" width="300" height="225" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-210" /></a><a href="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/IMG_3283.jpg"><img src="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/IMG_3283-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="IMG_3283" width="300" height="225" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-211" /></a></p>
<p>I have also been discovering how to give a new sense to objects that have been already created by man or nature. I have always shown much respect, and interest for Mother Nature and it things. So in many of my designs, you will definately see much nature worked in them. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cannabis-trunk-1.jpg"><img src="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cannabis-trunk-1-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="cannabis trunk 1" width="300" height="225" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-212" /></a><a href="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cannabis-trunk-2.jpg"><img src="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/cannabis-trunk-2-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="cannabis trunk 2" width="300" height="225" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-213" /></a></p>
<p>In others, are just experimenting with new, modern materials&#8230;such as resins, glass fiber, and poliurethanes. It has been a lot of fun. Compared to the complicated method of painting with mosaiques, the abstract tables I Â´m working on nowadays, is much more loose, more relaxed, and more expressive in the painting sense.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/mesa-roja-1.jpg"><img src="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/mesa-roja-1-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="mesa roja 1" width="300" height="225" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-214" /></a><a href="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/mesa-splash-2.jpg"><img src="http://www.almarte.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/mesa-splash-2-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="mesa splash 2" width="300" height="225" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-217" /></a></p>
<p>I needed to let go a bit that mosaique technique, for people have loved it much, but when you are an artist, you donÂ´t want to end up doing the same thing over and over, for years!!!! There are so many ideas to work on, to bring to life&#8230;and I am proud of my own evolution in my art work, and that includes both my employees, who are my good friends, and respect and adore. I am thank our Father, the Lord, that in this life I had to work in art, and make it my life. I feel great and happy about all the new things that we are living in our new workshop , and the lovely energy, and environment we have created for us to work each day, in a better place. May art live forever !</p>
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		<title>Octopus</title>
		<link>http://www.almarte.com/2007/06/19/octopus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Paula</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the latest project from Almarte. One of the largest projects Almarte has taken on and we are extremely proud of the work completed. Including bars, murals, tables and dancefloor.]]></description>
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