Artist & Author

As an artist and author, Desouza of Vegas has gained a reputation for his unique and captivating creative works popularized in the internationally famous adult playground called “Sin City” where he hosts Sin City Storytime.com. He became a year-round resident of Las Vegas in 2012 after he relocated from the Washington, DC area.

All of his works (stories and images) are contained in one authentic collection known as the Desouza Vault which is FREE for you to explore.

What you will find inside that collection: Baja Clavius: Moon Men Deep Inside along with his artistic works, his usage of full frontal male nudity, uncensored naked men pictures he produces, the community of 3D artists to which he belongs, the traditions and practices of digital 3D art, along with the development and creation of 3D male characters and male 3D digital models.

He also is well-known for creating illustrated stories that are outside the science fiction genre.

If you would like to contact me, send me email: desouza3d@gmail.com.

--> If you are a blogger, podcaster, YouTube content creator or other media writer, this website has a high degree of background information about me that can help you write an article or commentary. I am available for interviews.

Pen Name

The artist and storyteller in Las Vegas, Nevada is a citizen of the United States, born in California. His heritage is Portuguese from both his parents, the late Edward and Evelyn Goulart. He is known to most people by his nickname, Woody.

The word madeira is Portuguese for wood. The surname Desouza is a variation of the surname Souza from his old country grandfather on his mother’s side.

It was the year 1996 when he first started publishing online under the pen name of Madeira Desouza. Then in 2007 he branched out into creating original 3D digital images for online publication also using that same pen name.

Photos:

That’s Madeira Desouza in the photograph about to be killed by the Predator who appeared suddenly one day in Las Vegas, Nevada for no apparent reason.

That’s also Madeira Desouza in the photograph taken in 1891 or 1991 in historic Deadwood, South Dakota. You can see clearly that Madeira Desouza posed for this photograph holding a shotgun. Why did he choose a shotgun for this photograph? His mother’s father brought deep, enduring shame upon the family through a murder/suicide when Madeira Desouza was only a year old. That man he never knew used a shotgun to kill his wife (his mother’s mother) and then he turned the gun on himself. That violent family tragedy influenced Madeira Desouza’s emotional sensibilities as a storyteller in adulthood.

Provocative Science Fiction Time Travel Adventures

Provoking readers is a very different process compared to provoking viewers with visual works. Madeira Desouza chose the science fiction time travel adventures genre deliberately so that his novel would turn out to be emotionally challenging and not at all “safe” in the intellectual or visceral sense. He did not attempt to create something that would make money for himself or for others. But, he did attempt to create something that would make readers/viewers think about issues that they otherwise might not think about while enjoying spending time with masculine and muscular male characters.

What Madeira Desouza created is a science fiction time travel adventure that is also true to the bara underground art genre. This is because Madeira Desouza depicts gay male same-sex feelings and sexual identity with masculine, muscular males that sometimes are violent and exploitative. Read more about the bara underground art genre.

What does his work in that genre say about him? Most writers will admit what he admit here: They do not like violence and exploitation in everyday living. They write about violence and exploitation. It’s fiction. It’s only pretend. It’s only art or make-believe. As such, Madeira Desouza does not advocate for violence and exploitation in real life.

His target audience is gay males, but straight females also are known to enjoy the bara genre and his works in particular.

Madeira Desouza suspects that what he has created probably will not be made into a traditional Hollywood movie because the story and characters do not fit into the framework of major motion pictures that tell science fiction stories. Yet, he definitely can imagine this would make show business sense as a series of episodes for streaming on Amazon or Netflix.

Based on a Real-Life Event

He admits: My writing Baja Clavius: Moon Men Deep Inside dates back to when Madeira Desouza began writing the story in 1990. That year he was driving westward by himself on his way to the Grand Canyon very early in the morning through the vast Navajo Nation, a Native American reservation spanning portions of the states of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. He saw a young man hitchhiking on the side of the road standing next to an old pickup truck. The young man wore tattered cowboy attire that suggested he had just survived a particularly rough journey. His cowboy hat caught the soft yellow light of sunrise in an eerie way that made him look otherworldly.

I set aside all suspicions and common sense regarding the risks of picking up a stranger in a very isolated area. I made the choice to stop driving and pick him up.

Dig deeper into this real-life experience from 1990 which was the basis for my writing Baja Clavius: Moon Men Deep Inside.

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Read the Smashwords interview with Madeira Desouza.