Second Semester Reflections

The second semester has been a little hard. Painting has become more and more difficult and frustrating for me, because when you progress is more easy to get stuck in something. But that also mean that when you find something (doesn't matter how small it is) it is a big achievement. Painting and I have a love/hate relationship.

It is also hard to be far away form my girlfriend. We don't see each other too much but when it happens we try to make the most of it and we talk and chat everyday.

At least all the hard-work has produces good results: I have become better (but it is not enough), so it has been a decent semester.

I don't have a particular experience to talk about but I will mention all the times I went to Linares and Talca to see my family and my girlfriend. Those are moments in which I can relax with the people I love. We go to eat, I play with my brother, etc. Actually, it doesn't matter what we do, the only important it is to do something together and see each other. I miss them.

I just hope to end this semester in the best way possible and go to my home for vacations. I will paint and draw everyday I could and use the majority time to be with my family and my girlfriend... and of course get drunk with my friends - I miss that too.

Arts and I

My first memory is about me drawning dinosaurs and ancient hominids - I was 3 or 4 years old. If there was something I could imagine, I drew it. So, for me it's "natural" to be here (even when I was on psychology first). At first I thought that the career had an speciality on drawning, but it hasn't, so I choose painting as my central workshop and I try my best on it. Also, I'm in the experimental cinema workshop because I want to make video-art and I'm in the drawning workshop with Iñaki - the hardest workshop in my opinion - in which we are working on different topics: the head, the human body and the urban space (I draw statues dressing the characters on them as japanese samurais... because... I CAN!!!). And we will make a book of our work for the exam.

I don't know what is going to happen in the future because there's nothing for sure related with this career, but I'm totally sure that I will don't stop making art, I can't even if I want to because to be an artist is a lifestyle, a way to be.


By the way: SAMURAI!!!