Big chilean artist

This post is a tribute of two big artist of the national scene that inspired me since i read about them when i was a kid.

Sergio Larraín was born in a rich home like the most of Larrain People. This fact allow him to travel around the world and know how the people lives. He always was a mystic man. He was interested in real feelings that he could not experiment normally so he left his house and lived with the poor childrens of the Mapocho river. He made a lot of photographies and was recognited by the Magnum Agency (the best honour of a photographer) and he worked there. His level of empaty helped him to capture very close pictures of people, like one time, when he captures portraits of the sicilian mafia family.  His last days he just left the photography because he found other state of mind and just take pictures of “satoris” or “Ilumination moments”.

A couple of years later, another big artist was born. Claudio Bravo was born in Maipú (maybe) and began drawing at school. I don’t know exactly how, he worked with the Sotheby Gallery and created his famous paintings of packets (a lot of mistery packets closed with all its details). He generally painting still life´s paintings but living in Morocco he worked with the human body too. His style is photorealism but his level of composition or color´s experiment is the thing that make him a great artist. He was always near of the Royalty and his topics tried to be universal. Larraín in other side, talk us about social injustices.  I love both of them but even today i cannot decide who is better :(

A job: Wildlife photographer

Its a little complicated talk about my relation with the architecture at a profesional level, so i am going to talk you about one of my three secret dreams: be a photographer of the wild life. I think this could be an amazing job.  Those kind of photographers travel around the world like freelancers and give to the people their own perspective of the nature, in magazines or documentaries at least. I always ask myself “how they feels while they are making those images” and this job could answer my question.

To be a wildlife photographer  i think i need to be prepared to live with just the mínimum like a hippie (and that is a great wall to get this job because we all are inmersed in other type of relation with the material world). Do not have a stablished house or fresh meal everyday. Be prepared to fight with the weather and learnt to live together with other people from differents cultures. But first, i nedd to understand how works the burocracy in a traveling life. I think i have some competences like that but is not enought L I think i can resist a los of days without sleeping (thanks to FAU) and i have a couple of knownledges about photography or about thinking in a creative way.

It seems a very suffer life, but is only a part of the job. They travel alone but they have friends in all countries they know. I think they can see things that i can even imagine and being capable of understand how the life works like any other.

Environmentally friendly

Is a common thing that our parents or teachers talk us about environmental protect, but I think the real change of our actions comes with a revelation. I remember when I saw for first time the Al Gore’s movie “An inconvenient truth”. It cause a deep impression in me (and in the entire world). Inmediatly, I though in make the difference. I never threw away water again. The same thing with the energy. I couldn´t understand how people turn the light or TVs on and left the room as if nothing had happened. Sometimes I turn those off in secret, when I visit other houses.

If i needed saw a movie to be more environmental friendly…How about the other people? I think the human condition is blind about things that cannot feel directly. The Chilean culture is a TV culture and I remember some advertising about the correct use of the energy, but this format is limitated. The plastic bag’s law is a triumph, but came here so late

The most common things that people recycle is glass and paper but all our activities generate other kind of trash. For example, I buy a lunch every day and the package is bigger than the amount of food. I don’t use straws and every time I keep the plastic bags that sellers give me (In an obligatory way) but life is hard L a couple of days ago my roomie throw away my bag collection and I don’t even had thinking about what to do with those. I know there is a lot of things to do that depends of our level of knowledge and motivation. So, I think I need a new “revelation”. And you?

A manga: Oyasumi Punpun

Two months ago a friend recommended me a manga that I have no idea that exist. He said “this is another kind of manga, you must read it”. I am not a good lector of manga but  I had reading some “seinen” works like “Vagabond” or “Gantz”. Those mangas  in particular have a deep vision of the world and an amazing level of illustration.

The manga is  called “Oyasumi Punpun” (Goodnight, Punpun). Is about a Japanese kid and how he looks the world where he lives. He grows like any other kid, with a particular relationship with his family, the school, his friends and the girls he likes, but the author shows how the kid (Punpun) really see the world and how the dysfunctional environment affects his development. The author use an intense expression in his drawings and this is very beautiful to see. Is like the Pixar’s movie “intensified” but with the Japanese sensibility. In fact, I read its critics and some guys compares it with the master novel “The Catcher in the Rye” of J.D. Salinger.

I loves this manga since the first day. When I was reading it, I remembered how I felt when I has the age of Punpun. The view of  a kid is so different and we don’t think in this fact in our regular days.