Topics

· Artists you admire, and why. 

· Write about a historical artist you admire (Van Gogh, Rembrandt, etc.). 

· Explain different art movements, such as impressionism and post-modernism.

· A movie or television show that inspires you. 

· Places you have travelled or would like to visit someday. 

· Quotes that inspire you. 

Holidays.

When I think about my favorite’s holidays, I remember immediately of my vacations in Valparaiso and in Bolivia.

The first ones were special to me because I went there with my friend Paula. This travel was in January 2010. We decide to go to Valparaiso. We spend there for a month, in Cerro Concepción; the place where we stayed is called Museo al Cielo Abierto, which consist in a complex of houses with beautiful murals made by famous chilean artists. Staying there, we walk a lot. To me, this hill is one of the most beautiful places in Valparaiso: a lot of colors and little passages streets to know. The most amazing thing is that you never finish knowing all places. These holidays are specials to me because I meet great people and they were my family in that moment.

The other vacations were very different. I went with my boyfriend to Bolivia, which is really an amazing country. When I got there, I fell in love immediately. We went to Oruro, Uyuni, Potosí, La Paz, , Sucre, Coroico, Copacabana, Isla del Sol and Tiwanaku. Everything was beautiful; every place was a little adventure. How I wrote before, to me Bolivia is very special because is a mixture of native costumes, smells, colors… in a few hours you can see totally different landscapes. Also is very cheap, so you can do a lot of things and don’t worry about your money.  We drank a lot of exotic fruit juice, I still miss the tumbo juice.. 

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Hi guys.

Today i am going to talk about the social networks, the most used way to communicate in the last time. When I decided to create a Facebook account, was principally to knowing about my friends; one of them went to Indonesia for five years, and the other one live in Brasil. The phone calls were too expensive, besides it was complicate to match about the time facts. Hence, i decided take part of this platform for knowing about their lives.. look their photos and know a little about the details of their everyday. Perhaps it will be impersonal, but it were the only way to be closer.

In my page I post, mostly, photos, news and videos. But I have special careful in not to publish personal things about people who don't participate in Facebook, because i don't like to involve neither to make public the people's life if they don't make it by own initiative.

Another platform I used is Tumblr. Although, you can't talk directly to other people, you can share all kind of images with people around the world.

Welcome to Coroico.

Hi Everybody.

Thinking about my first semester on this year, I remember immediatly of my vacations in Bolivia. I also made related activities with my career, like work in the American Popular Art Museum in the GAM, and profundize in topics who interest me.

This trip was planned for years, but I could never realize. Finally, the last year we decided to go with my boyfriend, so we buy the tickets to start the dreamed trip. Been there I realized the dramatic differences between Chile and Bolivia, we are so close, yet so far at once... Certain dignity and respect for their roots.

We toured much of the country, finding unforgettable people, and landscapes really beautiful. The place I most liked it calls Coroico, and it is a little town in the middle of the nowhere, with a semitropical weather. It was so different from what I usually see... A lot of green, exotic fruits, giant flowers. And most of all, a lot of happy people sharing in the town square.

the best.

Is difficult to me choose an artist, because I think there is not a best artist but I can tell who are my favorites… At first time I can think in people who their work is significant to me, like Violeta Parra, Jean Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Henri Cartier Bresson, Robert Bresson, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis and many more… but if I have to chose one, I say my favorite writer, Ernesto Sábato.

Ernesto Sábado was born in Argentina. He was a writer, essayist, physical and painter. His life history is very peculiar. Big part of his life was dedicated to research about atomic radiation in Paris. He was very successful on his area and reached one of the major goals that could suck a physical. However, that didn’t make him happy. During this period, he had contact with the surrealistic movement, causing it to questioning his life and influencing their future works. Due to an existential crisis decided to retire permanently from the scientific area to devote himself entirely to art, specially literature and painting. He decided to reside on a ranch with no water or electricity for dedicate his time to writing.

Sábato wrote three novels: “El Túnel”,”Abaddón el Exterminador” and “Sobre héroes y Tumbas”, countless essays on the human condition. His first essay was published in 1945 and is call “Uno y el universo”. As time progressed into libertarian and humanistic positions.

Is very difficult to me explain why Ernesto Sabato is my favorite artist/person/human. I like his lucidity and his way to see the word. He always spoke about the human condition in relation with the social reality, he was aware that some things are bad, but proposes a new way of dealing… a new way of standing in the world. I like this because I feel very identify with his ideas. As I read his work he became in my favorite writer.

‎"Leer les dará una mirada más abierta sobre los hombres y sobre el mundo, y los ayudará a rechazar la realidad como un hecho irrevocable. Esa negación, esa sagrada rebeldía, es la grieta que abrimos sobre la opacidad del mundo. A través de ella puede filtrarse una novedad que aliente nuestro compromiso." Ernesto Sábato.

“Pensar no es un privilegio”

I think this country is characterized for sold itself to other countries and, even worse, to some people of this own country to get monetary benefits. Years ago, Chile has been selling their wealth indiscriminately… the water, the copper; only for give you some examples. Therefore, the new law about the seeds didn’t surprise me, in fact, neither surprised me that people who is directly related with the government obtain benefit with this law and business. This doesn’t mean that I don’t feel sad for all this things. Sincerely, I think this issue is disgusting... Sometimes I can not believe how shameless are some people who think only in their own benefit regardless if they go over the liberty and rights for the rest of the society.

However, there is other kind of news that show us that not everything is lost, and one of those is the master class that took place in Plaza de Armas which had the name “El Estado nos tiene en la calle” (“The state has us in the street”), that make an allusion to the current situation in Chile related with the education (or the less of this). This event struck my attention for many reasons, besides the theme about education, I think that was important to take own public spaces to discusses about our problems and make conscience in other people. In this conversation we talk about our reality and the problems that affect us, we talk about the need of a constituent assembly for create a new constitution, a new state but thought from us.

http://www.elciudadano.cl/2011/06/13/el-estado-nos-tiene-en-la-calle/

Stella extragaláctica.

“No, the poetry is not a biological equation. The poetry, if you could define it –because is indefinable- is a sentimental burst, is a memory of another sentimental burst, nothing else”.
That’s the way Stella Díaz Varín refer to poetry, who is known like the boxer poet, the first punk woman and the most radical in Chile.
She was born in La Serena in 1926. Since she was a girl, under the influence of her dad, an anarchist who inculcated his politic ideologies to her, she starts to publish a lot of articles and poems in local diaries. However, her dream was studying medicine to specialize in psychiatry, absolutely sure about the idea of scrutinize in the human brain to know the dreams of the man.  But she didn’t finish her studies and started to write in a few newspapers like El Siglo, La opinion, El extra, La hora, etc. Unfortunately, she had to renounce her job because the government of Gonzàles Videla pursuing her like to many militants of communism.  A deep hate for the government joined to Enrique Lafourcade and Enrique Lihn, and together tattoo a skull intheir arms, a blood compact that consisted in kill the dictator.  
She’s one of my favorite poets; she had a deep and singular voice, her poetry is disconsolate, but strong, hopeless, but determinate to fight. She had a creative personality; she expressed her dissatisfaction with a feminine perspective with ad underground language, with items like the death, loneliness, and feminine condition show an inseparable relation between her life and her creation.