Last blog

 Hello today I will talk about my experience in this English course. I think the English course is well planned, in the sense that not only should we speak English in our classes, we should also do exercises and also write these blogs, which I think is a very good idea to really integrate learning of the class. Blogs also seem good to me because they give us a writing space, which although it has a forced foot, allows us to express ourselves freely, using English not only to understand it, but also to really be able to communicate.

What I think was a bit difficult about the course was not being able to have face-to-face classes due to the pandemic, because I think that in something that has everything to do with communication it is super important to be able to interact with people. I hope that next year people will be able to attend classes at the university. It also seems to me that some classes dedicated more to grammatics than learning vocabulary could be added, because I think it is an aspect where sometimes we fall a little short.

Anyway I think the methodology has been very good and the topics of the blogs have been very entertaining. These days I use English more than anything to watch movies or series and listen to music, but the truth is that outside of that the use of English is not something very common in my daily life, it is not something that I should use as a means of communication currently.

It has been a really fun experience writting this blogs, i hope you has enjoyed too, greetings!!!

Changes in my academic program

 Hello, today I will talk about the things that I would like to improve in my academic program, as a student of plastic arts. First of all, I believe in my program there is a great debt to women artists, mainly because little is taught to us about the women who were in the art scene in different times, saying that there were not so many or that they did not make art, which is perfectly known that it is not like that.

So the first thing I would do would be to add a branch that talks about the history of women's art, and from a feminist perspective, with readings written by women, and an analysis of the context in which they developed as artists and as women. A complete branch dedicated to that, because it seems to me that the adjustments that have been made to the art history branch, which have been adding one or two classes dedicated to this subject, are not enough. Not to mention the readings, which are always by heterosexual white male authors.

Another thing that I would add would be some classes dedicated exclusively to learning how to mount in rooms, and everything that is entails, from studying artists' montages, to doing it in a practical way in the workshop, learning to build artifacts perhaps, that allow us to improve the montages . I think this is something that especially now with the online university, it has been noticed that it is very little empowered in us students.

Postgraduate studies

 Doing a postgraduate degree is something that I haven't really thought about much, especially because now that I'm in the fourth year I'm a little tired and I only think about how much time I have left to finish. also if I think about this time in which the classes have been online, it seems even more exhausting.

However, if I allow myself to imagine it, I think there is something I would like to do if I get the chance. The first thing would be to do a master's degree in visual arts, because I would very much like to be able to continue delving into everything that is the process of creating an art work, which I feel is something that I need due to the pandemic. I imagine doing it in Chile, however I would love to be able to study abroad, but I see that a bit far away.

The other thing that I would like to do, is not a postgraduate degree, but a different career, which would be studying film, which although it is different from what I study, I think it is something that complements very well and that could serve me a lot, and it could expand the languages ​​that I use when creating art.

But I must say that at this precise moment all this is only in the idea, because at this moment I am concentrated in finishing my current career and none of these ideas have been really evaluated.

Dream Job

 Thinking about a dream job is a bit difficult to me, especially while I'm studying fine arts in a place like Chile, where art is not always good valued. It also happens that I do not know if there is such a defined field of work.

This is why I actually imagine myself doing several different things. Among the alternatives that come to mind is doing art classes at the university, although I know that it is not so easy to do it. I also imagine that I could have a vegan restaurant that also had a bookstore next to it, because I really like to cook and books. or maybe I would like to have a clothing store or something related to textiles.

But what I definitely would like to do is dedicate myself to what I study, textile art, I would like to exhibit in galleries, earn funds for my art, travel the world showing what I do. However, I would like my place of residence to be Santiago, the problem is that here in Chile you don't earn much money by exhibiting. That is why I would like to complement this work with one of those mentioned above.

I still have many possibilities and time to choose. meanwhile I would love to continue studying, maybe do a magister.

A photo that i love

 

Taking pictures since I have been studying Fine Arts has been a bit difficult for me, because I tend to push myself to make it a great photo, but anyway sometimes I try to let go of the fear of failure and I dare to capture some images.

This photo was taken by me, in the summer of 2020, while I was walking through Ancud with my partner. Although we are not in this photo, it reminds me a lot of how much fun we had on that first trip we had. We spent almost a month traveling through different parts of southern Chile and it was the first time that we spent so much time together and it was great opportunity to know each other better.

This photo also reminds me how good it feels to do things that entertain you without pushing you, this photo I took carelessly, I only took it because I loved how the colors of the car and the house combined perfectly. I felt so free at that time and I was having so much fun and that’s something that I need to remember sometimes.

 

I love this photograph and it takes me back to that trip to the south.

my favorite movie

 Hello everyone, I hope you are very well, today I am going to talk to you about my favorite movie. I came across this movie when I was sixteen by chance changing channels while I was watching television at dawn, I didn't see it from the beginning so I didn't understand much at the time, but I liked the aesthetics, the plot and how confusing it was. I spent a lot of time googling, until I found it. This movie is called "The possible lives of mister nobody".

This film was released in 2009, it is from the director Jaco Van Dormael. it is about the life of a man, which we can see in different ages, stages and variants of his life.The interesting thing about this film is that it does not have a linear chronology, nor is it a story with a single point of view, but rather that the time and the possibilities that this man's life has been constantly crossed in the film. This is how within this plot you can see at least three different lives that this man could live, if he makes certain decisions. There are also several themes that emerge from the film, such as the question of what time is, the butterfly effect, how love works, among other existentialist questions.

What I love about this film is that it states that life has many paths and depending on the decisions we make, these cross paths and create new realities. Also that when choosing, you are leaving aside other options that existed, like doors that are closing. I also love how this movie represents in some way how our mind works, the mental process that exists behind a decision. How emotional this movie is captivates me. In certain way it has made me feel accompanied in difficult moments and that connection for me is very important in any artistic expression. And also i have to say that the art direction seems to me wonderful and very surreal, which I think fits very well with what the film proposes.

 I definitely think it is a film that you could enjoy a lot and I highly recommend it to you.

                                    Have a good day you all, greetings!