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document.write("<p>“It wasn’t my goal to be an artist as I am today.  I wanted to be an engineer or a doctor,”  Jean Sylvionel Brutus discloses honestly.  “But my mother died in 1989 when I was 4 years old. By the time I was 8, my family didn’t have enough money to survive. My father taught me the iron cut.”  In time, he left his father’s shop to apprentice with Jean Claude Soulouque and Nicolson Mathieu. “They pay me for my working, teach me how to manage the tools and they push me up to never fall down.”</p><p>When his father died in 2009, Jean Sylvionel was left to support his 5 brothers and four sisters.  He is able to do that, “with God’s help. God gives me inspirations that I discover in the sea and in the sky.”  His dreams are heartfelt, “I just want to take care of my family as I am supposed to, and help other people who can’t grow up in this art.” </p>");
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