"My name is Maximo Silva Chiroque, but as an artist, I'm known as Shiroque. It sounds the same, but by changing the C for an S, it carries the initial of my paternal surname, Silva. I was born November 24, 1955 in La Unión en Piura, a beautiful place beneath a sky illuminated by the radiant sun with green locust tree forests and the song of birds.

"From the time I was a boy, I'd play with the clay I dug from the rivers and ponds near my home that I'd often visit. I soon had to move to Lima where, with much sacrifice, I went to high school. I then entered the Escuela Nacional Superior Autónoma de Bellas Artes where I specialized in ...

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