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.

Most hated subject at school.

Mathematics.

In this day i will talk about my most hated subject at school. I finish my school in 2008 at the age of eighteen years old. In that time i believe that subjects in school was useless, in general. I was a good student in subjects like history, language, philosophy, art, but not in science subjects. And mathematics is a science. Is logic pure.

       In that time my teacher was Marta Arriagada, a small person with no passion for teaching. I was one of those students who needs big explications for the problems. And Mathematics in that way there are axiomatics, the things are only in one way, not other.

      I remember one day in school in that i ask a question to Marta. I ask, Teacher: ¿why two more two are four? She look at me like "oh my god help my with this kid", and she answer me with this: "Antonio, go back to your homework please", and no more.

     Since that day i think my teacher was a terrible teacher, she was unable to wake up my interest about that área in particular, at the contrary, since that day i began to down my califications, and i was an incompetent student, of course not all was responsability of my teacher, but i think that a teacher is a guide, and if is not capable to guide their students, maybe is not a good teacher.

    Now i think that mathematics are so useful for the daily life, like shopping, to organize the time, to organize the money that you have, to measure distances, quantify the space that surround you, and in my case to use it for art.

My best holidays.


This day i will talk about one of the best holidays that i´ll had ever. Really, that holidays cover several years, in my childhood and adolescence. I remember my family gone to the eight region of Chile, Concepción. In that place we know a river affluent with the Bío bío river, called Huebquecura. It was beautiful. Usually we gone to a camping with all my family members, parents, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, cousins and some friends of the family. We camp one weekend once a year from many years. The place that surround the river it was beautifull, like a dream. It set between cliffs, and the river was so bigger like a hundred meters of width.

Usually we gone to search wood to the bonfire all surround the place. One family had to cook the lunch for one day and do all things that to do with the food and clean up. And we spend the day in the river, swimming, playing cards, laughing, sleeping. Relax.

Sadly, now the place is flooded  by an hydroelectric plant, but i remember with so much love and nostalgia. One day we have our revenge by all the beautiful places that the money has destroy.

One country to visit.


Hello. In this day i will talk about a country that i would like to go (in one day). That country is in South America, is the biggest of the continent, with the biggest population and field of the Southern Cone. Inside the country there are some of the most beautiful and impressive places of the world, like the Amazon River and the Amazon jungle that surround it, in that place live unique species of flora and fauna.  In that country is founded one of the most biggest cities of the world, actually is a metropoli, famous by the people, the joy, the carnivals, and they social problems. Sao Paulo. Not all is beautiful, in that city and in the country in general, the marginal neighborhoods are famous by the poorness and the violence that exists in there. So, Brazil. Really is one of the places that i like to visit, and i think this: if you like to know a place, you need to live in it, not like a tourist, but like one more of the country.