street artist,
being totally still, but here is one with a difference, a double act, Yorge
Luís Ruiz of Fortaleza, in Brazil, has made quite a name for himself
thanks to his partner, a pet dog, who assists him when he does his
realistic living statue routine, photographs cachorrinhaartista/Instagram,
the Venezuelan
street artist immigrated to Brazil in search of a better life, He settled
in Fortaleza, in the northeastern state of Ceará,
Yorge and Jaspe have been drawing attention around Fortaleza
for a while now, but they recently received international acclaim thanks to a
Twitter video of their routine which went viral, getting over 5 million views,
260,000 likes, and 91,000 comments in the last three weeks, the pair now have
nearly 90,000 followers on Instagram and have been contacted by multiple news
agencies interested in doing a story on them,
Ruiz claims that he never trained the dog, and that
everything just happened naturally, He’s been doing his living statue routine
for six years, but Jaspe only became a part of the act when they moved to Brazil,
six years ago, He didn’t have anyone to leave her with, so he started bringing
her along, at one point he noticed that Jaspe lifted her head and froze
into place whenever he kissed her on the neck, and since she was always with
him anyway, he decided to use her reaction as part of the living statue
routine, and as they say, the rest is history,
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