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February 9- 1999. I just arrived to the studio in Calle K in Havana, where we live and Work. Marco and Dago already has started to work on "Estuche" (wood hand grenade) doing the first technical drawing for the structure of this piece. Is a very complex one. This of course bring a discussion trying to find the best solution, something very common then with many pieces, but this time I had the opportunity to film it, camera in hand and on rollerblades (1) Notice the studio is surrounded with early work from 1992 and 1997. Our kitchen also have an early tiny drawing on the wall something that we developed later. So almost 13 years later of this rough footage I wanted to share this with you all. Enjoy it. And Happy New year 2012.

A.A.

(1) The dolly like shots were done on my beloved rollerblades, I miss them a lot. They were really special.