Valeria Alvares Cruz is a lawyer and a Jungian clinical psychologist. She has a MA in Law and a post graduation in Neuropsycobiology, specialized in Legal Psychology and in Home Violence against Children and Adolescents by the University of Sao Paulo (USP), and an expert in Symbolism and universal Mythology (mainly the Roman-Greek mythology). She has also developed the theory of myths as representations of the sides of the Human Being (schemes, models, archetypes), entitled The Myth, Day by Day. Self-learned artist, she has made individual and collective exhibits since 1972 and has presented her works and received several awards in Brazil as well as abroad. University teacher in Psychology and Law, she has studied Italian, History of Art and Ancient History in Rome, in the 80's, in the Dante Alighieri Foundation. As a writer, she has published books in several areas and founded the GLAS - Literature and Art Group of Santos (Grupo de Literatura e Arte de Santos). Divorced and the mother of Victoria, she loves to have many friends, animals (specially cats and dogs), music, cinema and literature. She is also interested in philosophy, archeology, History (mainly the Antiquity, Greece and Rome), science, theory of systems, complexity, astronomy, astrology, mysticism and biographies. She doesn't like ignorance, narrow minds, prejudice, fanaticism and cruelty. On the other hand, she likes intelligence, sensibility, kindness, creativity, art, open minds and the vanguard. She thinks that the constant self-improvement, the polishing of the interior carbon into diamond, or the alchemy of the being must be our goal towards something truer, unique, harmonious, fulfilling and happy, apart from reductions of the cultural-social patterns forced by a media contaminated by strong and prejudiced ideologies. Finally, she affirms the need of courage for being nothing more and nothing less than what we are: our self-being. Furthermore, each of us must help, even in small ways and within our possibilities, in the struggle for improving the world against prejudices of any kind, against women, blacks, etc. In art, she remind us out that we can find ourselves and the whole world around us, the complex net of life, reflecting the personal and the collective, the transforming and the perennial, the vital landmark on the road trod by the human being, who is too human to create, with his own mythic, symbolic and individual language, the works for the eyes, hands and minds of those who have not quit seeing and to work beyond, where our name, who knows, will be plenitude.

Translated by Thereza Christina Rocque da Motta

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