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Albino Carreira, age 79, immigrated from Portugal with his wife in 1972. After he fell from a Toronto construction site in 1993, he had to leave his job and go on disability, when he was 50 years old.

Surgeons inserted six screws and two metal plates into his back, following the accident, Carreira said.

His personal transformation inspired him to start transforming the space around him; reconstructing his home, and reshaping it into an eccentric wonderland.

His house is now an art attraction, featuring countless wooden screws and scraps of metal; an intricate creative design by a man seeking a diversion from his physical pain.

Carreira’s house was named Eccentric Garden of Toronto in 2002. He estimates over 600,000 screws, 3,000 wine corks, hundreds of shells, and even some old toys from neighbours’ children are now embedded in his garden and house.

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