Teodoro San José Aguilar is a sculptor, painter, art therapist and writer. He created the Seeds for Peace to the World Foundation. He has also created the concept of Urban Plastic-Aesthetic Interventions applied to monumental public sculptures. Artistic biography Beginnings From his very beginning (1987–1990) San José set off with the sole idea of working with light and shadows and also with textures. This idea lead him work exclusively with the yellowish clay of Castilla (center Spain) for years and to undertake high relief murals following a hyperrealist technique of great impact. The clay is baked at in a gas oven with the carbonation technique. The imprint of this earth can be noticed with all its characteristics in the work named Textures, based on popular architectural elements, a subject that, being the foundation of his work. He becomes an expert in this field and that allows him to give lectures on the subject and to write a book commissioned by the Popular University of San Sebastian de los Reyes, Madrid, titled: Strolling through The Community of Madrid. Popular Architecture. This book was unique in this field of literature because it drew attention to what elements, aesthetically speaking, were noteworthy for each type of place. The book gave some routes that allow the reader to explore and recognize these important samples of a village or region´s specific traditional culture, those aspects that for centuries have defined its peculiar urban appearance. This book sold out years ago. Evolution A trip to Hamburg and Berlin in the beginning of the 90s marked a definite change in his work as he had the chance of meeting directly with works by Jean Arp, Henry Moore and Calder which together with the impact of Kandinsky watercolors, transformed in a drastic way his sculptures. He abandoned hyperrealism which was a characteristic of his work, to move to total abstraction. However, he kept his personal use of very elementary elements such as tree branches that have been pruned or very simple strings made of natural materials. This series was called the Tensions. This took a decade to complete but surprisingly it was never exhibited to the public as most of the pieces were burnt in an unfortunate accident. Internacionalization Two major events in the artist's life took place in the year 2000. An exhibition in Denia, Alicante (Spain) of work done there, where he has been living for