English languages challenges

First of all i try to explain my experience with english language in my school time, when i was a boy and i really don´t care this matter. In that time i had to learn english from memory, and in school i had many troubles to learn many subjects because something that i don´t care was something that i take and throw away. Still, i learn the basics, but i have troubles to know for example how use what verb or other basic form of make a sentence. Beside of that i never couldn´t talk with somebody or speak in front of people because of my fear to miss, remember in school miss is like give yourself to the general mockery.

Later when i was grow and many of that fears disappear with time, i began to listen music in english like rap or metal and i started to understand some words and sentences, and with that i start to train my english. Then i enter to Art career and i have the english class with Gabriela and in first time of my life i could understand many things that before it i cannot do, i could speak with somebody and understand him/her with not many trouble although not many time because is very exhausting to me, but i thing that is a big step. So i am very happy because i thing english class was a very possitive experience to me, i could break a big wall in a way. 

In my life i really don´t use english for anything besides of comic situations or lost words in a conversation, and really i thing that i won´t use it at less i have a situation with people of other country with english like a common factor, i hope i can do that with no many troubles.

Changes to my study programme

First of all, the art career have different weakness in the way of the structures. In the classrooms the water can enter when is raining. Some classrooms have no windows with glass, in change only have tables (the mine for example), and that is claustrophobic. Other weakness are some teachers who don`t knows how is the work of teaching, they are artists not teachers and that creates problems in the learning area because they have not teaching abilities. Another problem wich i believe is elementary is the focus in the instruction of the art. The university wants teach abilities to solve problems in the conceptual area and many times the work with the materials is forgotten. And that is a great problem to me, because i don´t want to became in a conceptual artist but in a craftsman, someone who can creates things with his hands and who can go deep inside of a matter and know that in time. 

In other area the faculty have many workshops in wich we can work many hours at the day, many many teachers with different forms to teach and that is positive in the way of we have many possibilities in our hands. Something that not exists in other universities.

I think the faculty should be dedicate more hours to the workshop, and less hours to matters in that you are not interest, because that is time lose, and i hate to lose my time. 

In a couple of years the programme study is going to change for a new one, well, we see how is that. Good bye.

Summer holidays

I am almost 27 years old, and i now that im not an old person, but im not a boy. I have many things that i like a lot, some of those things are very hippie things, some of those not so much. For example, in the last months i began to enjoy very much that moment of the day in wich the sun start to descend, and the light is began to show the things in a different way, the colours start to change, the shadows go more longer, and for one moment, the only thing that exist, the only thing that its matter is what its front of you, nothing more. Its beautiful, maybe im starting to be an old man, ajajajja.
Other thing that i really enjoy is meeting people, and talk with other persons, persons wihc other experiences, with others ways of talk, dialects. Is like a hobbie, and a challenge too.
Of course that i like to find places with other colours, and buildings.
So, i must to say that in my school years i couldn´t go on in a studies travel, because we don´t have a good relationship with my classmates. So i have thing a lot, many year actually, and in the last times i have this thought in my mind of take my bag, and go on alone in a trip.
I like to go a couple of months to bolivia, alone in a beggining.
I have scared, but also i have exciting about it, maybe i go, maybe not, who knows.

Best childhood anecdote.

Does exist destiny? Yesterday, a friend make a question to me and several of my classmates: ¿do you believe in destiny? I answer to her that i believe in selfdetermination, but before of that i relate to her two stories. The first of, it happens last weekend when i was drink a beer with a guy that i meet in the university, we talk about many things, and one of those was a topic about nietszche and his theory about something that its like the destiny, but is not destiny. Nietszche says, life is like a circle, you gonna live for eternity, many lifes. But every life that you live, its gonna be the same of the last one. For example: if you don´t take the desicion of make that travel of your life, never, in none of your lifes you gonna make that travel. ¿Do understand? Its like destiny, but is not destiny, is something more.

The next day i watch a woodlouse walking on the earth, and he turning down many times. When a woodlouse its turning down, he died. But i was there and i turn it up several times, untill i go. When i return the next day, the woodlouse was there, dead, in the same place.
Because of that, i remember a situation that happens many many years ago. I was with my family in the south of Chile, and i found a similar bug in the earth, and the creature it was dying, someone was put the shoes on the bug. So i toke them and i run with my parents. They tell me this story a few months ago, and they remember me asking the next question. ¿Why they was killed him? And they tell me, save him, and the three try to save the bug. And that is my story, goodbye.

Postgraduate studies.

In the present, i´m currently studying pottery and sculpture and i think that the time of this career (four years) is not enough to learn well the work of the material, that happens with years of practice, reflection, trial and error, and a guide, a teacher is a positive tool to follow that way and find the conclussions that you need to have a real knowlegde, with good foundations and domine of the techniques. 

And thats way i think that is necesary keep learning and go deeply in the trade. Its like alchemy, if you give something you got something in change. If you dedicate enough time of your life to learn how can do better the work, your work slowly is gone to be a masters work.

So i would like to keep studying in the same practice, like a Master in Plastic Arts focalized in Sculpture or Pottery (one of this). If i study more of sculpture i would like to go inside in the work with the wax sculpture. Because is a material with some of temporary and some of definitive.
By the other way i like to stay in the pottery because she have so many techniques that is impossible learn all of that in four years, a entire life is necessary to transform you in a master of this material.

If i have to choose other university of this, maybe i would chose one in Italy or France for the past that sculpture have in those countries, i choose Greek to. And in the case of pottery i choose Japan, denitely, because that is the born place of many, many techniques in pottery, in Japan exists a entire culture surrounding the pottery.

But, if one day i have the resources, i prefer to practice and keep learning by myself, in my own workshop, with my own times, even if that way needs more time to find a real knowlegde about this things.

Goodbye.





Wax sculptura of Edgar Degás. Ballet dancer.

My future job.

Hi, this night i will talk about the job. First of all, with the point of view of an art student or a simple student, i have the next thought: "If you learn something, you have need to pass the knowledge", if more people knows more of some areas wich have not been studied in deep, maybe the understanding between us it be mayor.  So teach, i really like to be a teacher with all the circunstances that be envolved in that job. And the money, and the work in home, that things that it comes in the pack.

   But i have a job in my mind since a time, back a few months, and i really like that job in special, on some beautiful jobs like pottery or sculpture. And thats is like a dream, it would be beautiful if i do that job. Im speaking of furniture. I suposse that the money earned it would be like "work to work". Not something shure and specific or established. I would like to try and do it.


    I think that is a job it must in a workshop, and the building can be in or out, really i don`t care that question, but i prefer in outdoor. I imagine furniture like a work in that a person necesary need put love in the object, and so much concentration.

    Really i think forniture and teaching it can be do, one like a paid work and the other like a hobby,  so i can do both in my life.




 

My favourite book.

    Today i will talk about one of my favourites books in the life. This book is an epic story made by JRR Tolkien. The writer do a recopilation work about the miths and leyends of nordic countries and the celts. Upon this information the autor made a new universe with Gods, Demons, Elfs, Orcs, Trolls, Wizards, and many other creatures that coincide in this world.

    There are more than three books made by this autor, but in this occasion i´ll talk about The Hobbit. Is a story in wich the principal character is forced to abandoned his home, and go to steal a treasure guard by a dragon. He have fourteen companions, a wizard and thirteen dwarfs. They must go the Lonely Mountain, his ancient home and fortress to recover the treasure.

    I don´t remember how many times i read this book, since my adolescence untill now, but i really can´t read this book for complete now because i now it too much. However i still find the magic in the descriptions of the landscapes and the tales that the characters relate.

   One interesting tip, is this: the autor never want his book made into a movie, So the family sold the rights for the movie, after his dead. I really think that movie sucks, but the movie Lord Of The Rings is a masterpiece.