Art and future (blogs 4 and 5)

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When I was a child, I had never imagined that I would be an artist. I really wanted to be a Preschool Teacher. Yeah, I know. I remember that I admired my teachers so much and that I wanted to wear a green apron like them someday.

But when I started to study that career at the Catholic University in 2017, I realized that the study environment was too competitive, and in addition to that I also crossed over a difficult moment, I was depressive and anxious, so I preferred to take care of myself and resigned the career.

After that, I took a year meanwhile I was deciding what career was the best for me. I evaluated studying architecture, design, or arts, but I really wanted to enjoy the process of studying more than the future money or stability.

So far, I’ve had a great experience studying Visual Arts until now. At first, I was very insecure. Every time I saw my classmates’ artworks, I felt no jealousy, but I felt so inferior, because I did not have as much experience as most of them.

As time went by, I realized that I had learnt a lot of new things, like theory and techniques that I never thought I would have learnt. But the best lesson I have learnt throughout this process is that the art is so important because it’s an effective tool that helps us to communicate those things that are hard to process inside ourselves.

Maybe that’s why I like modern art so much, especially expressionism and impressionism, but I must admit I also enjoy landscape art a lot. I think my favorites artists are Van Gogh and Turner,  and my favorites artworks from each of them are Wheat Field with Cypresses and Vesuvius in Eruption, respectively.



Wheat Field with Cypresses
Vincent Van Gogh



Vesuvius in Eruption
J. M. W. Turner

Both are landscapes but they are so different in their shapes and colors, nonetheless they are very deep and reflect innovative thinking that inspires me to create and experiment with painting, photography, and edition, which I have specialized over the career. (Let me show you a triptych and a painting that I made)





A veces siempre



Gris

In these days I have started thinking a lot about the future and what is that I wish to do with this knowledge, and considering my liking for teaching, maybe studying pedagogy is a good option to contribute to the world. The art is a skill, a mean to transmit and evoke feelings and emotions. Maybe I can help other people to develop this skill, but I’m not sure. It’s hard to me visualizing myself working for someone else, like an institution, and much less indoors every day.

I want the freedom to decide whatever I want to do when I wake up. I want to travel a lot to new landscapes to paint and photograph. I want to feel the emotion for learning and progressing. I want to meet a lot of great people that motivate and inspire me. I want to discover myself and nurture my soul to find my place in the world.

I’m not sure about what I’m going to do in the future, and I don’t want to worry about it. Who knows, maybe I’ll work as a freelancer or I’ll end up being a teacher after all.

Right now, I just want to enjoy the moment that I am living.






(I wrote this post putting together the requirements for blogs 4 and 5. Sorry for the delay, I've had a busy few week for the move.)



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