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Plínio Santos FilhoPh.D.
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Physicist · Artist · Teacher

Books, drawings, and the
daily art of seeing.

Drawing · Painting · Visual Perception · Artistic Anatomy · Art History · Printmaking
Plínio Bezerra dos Santos Filho, Ph.D. · Ph.D. in Physics, Washington University in St. Louis · postdoctoral research at Harvard University and North Carolina State University
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I

Books

The Testamentum collection and every title.

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II

Courses

The Act of Drawing — a method of seeing differently.

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III

Art

Drawings and paintings — the teacher in the gallery.

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The Collection

The Candi Press Catalogue

18 works in 32 editions, in English and Portuguese, on four shelves. Books to be read slowly.

The WordThe Forty DaysThe Holy Family
Testamentum Domini
10 works
The Odyssey · Vol. IThe Odyssey · PocketThe Iliad · Vol. I
The Classics · Radix Polyglot
5 works
Historinhas sem VerbosAmnesias: The Book of Forgetting
Coleção Candi Press
2 works
Criança Estuda o Mundo Inteiro
Education
1 work
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EMML 2358, Folio 2r — the Geʿez of the Testamentum Domini
EMML 2358 · Folio 2r
The Source · EMML 2358 · Ethiopia, 16th century

The Testamentum Domini

The Geʿez manuscript behind the whole Collection — a sixteenth-century leaf from an Ethiopian monastery, carried into English for the first time. Read slowly, one word at a time, with the original page kept open beside every line.

ዓ ሰ ሙ ፡፡ አ ሜ ን ♣
“World without end · Amen” — the sealing formula of EMML 2358
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Essays · Candi Press

Notes from the workshop

Short essays on how each book came to be — a new one most weeks. See them all →

Coleção Candi Press · Literary
From Gutenberg to KDP — how Historinhas sem Verbos arrived as fifty-one photographs → The Book of Forgetting — how Amnésias became volume two →

Essays on the Testamentum Domini Collection and the Classics — coming, one a week.

Free · Courses

The Act of Drawing

A method of seeing differently, discovered during a physics doctorate. Watch a short study, then draw — same time, same place, twenty-one days. Enter your email for the free mini-course & eBook.

From the atelier

Original drawings and paintings. To acquire or ask about a work, write to Plínio directly. We launch with two works and the gallery grows.

Recife · acrylic on canvas · 2020
Olinda · acrylic on canvas · 2020
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