A person I admire

Roberto Burle Marx was a plastic artist, and Brazilian naturist, who became a well known architect landscapist. Burle was born in 1909, on the city of Sao Paulo.

Since he was a little boy, he was very interested in the gardens, like when he accompany his mother to cultivate several species of flowers. He studied in the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes, but didn’t finish the class.

Burle Marx first’s landscaping inspirations came while he was studying painting in Germany, while he often visited the Botanical Garden in Brazil, and learn about Brazil’s native nature. After return to Brazil, he began to collect native plants around his home.

The international recognition he won, was because the project of the Ministry of Education building, where he design in a really abstract way, the roof.

Burle Marx’s style was avant-garde and modern, and always with the Brazilian folk art. His designs were also influenced by the cubism and abstractionism.

When he start to introduced plant into his projects, he had a serious problem, because the species of native flora that he wanted to use weren’t known in the shops, so he start his own greenhouse.

The reason of why I admire him, is because he was able to mixed up arts (painting) with a part of architecture, and create something beautiful, also helping the environment and the native flora of Brazil, by making more and more recognized the native plants in his works.

Summer Holidays

In my summer vacations, I’m planning to stay in Chile, and go with my family to the beach. I’ve spent all my summers in the beach, and those are the best days of my life. The place where I would go is Calderilla, a place between Caldera and Bahia Inglesa. 

The beach in that place is not really a nice one, so we do other things instead of swimming, like searching mollusks or crabs, and normally in the afternoon, my dad and my uncle put a fishing net with the little boat that we have, and in the next morning, they take it out, before the sea wolf eats all the fish, and all my family helps to clean it up from seaweed.

We normally go to swim in a beach that is called ‘Caleta los Patos’, where we spent almost all the afternoon. In that beach me, my brother and cousins play body board when there are big waves, and if there’re not, we put an inflatable mattress in the sea, and wait to the waves flip us over.

Normally we have this little trips to another beaches, that are more difficult to arrive, because there’re a lot of rocks in it, and we have to walk through them, but those are the most beautiful places, because no one goes to those beaches, and they are intact.

Almost all the food that we eat in the beach is seafood (obviously), but I don't really like it, so I only eat fish, crabs, and oysters.

Special Talent

I don't really think I have a special talent, so I'm going to talk about what I think I good at; painting.

I started painting when I was little, like 9 or 10 years old, with my school teacher, miss Norma Salinas, who taught me how to paint with oil.  My mom realized that I really liked painting, so she put me in classes with a teacher; Marcela Barlaro. Miss Marcela taught me everything I know until now about painting.

My first exposition was when I was 12, I expose with my classmates from the class of arts in school, and I was really happy about it. After that I have several expositions, all with my classmates.

The first exposition that had on my own, was when I was 14, and I exposed in the Cultural center of Copiapó.

The second exposition that I had, was last year, in the new Cultural center of Copiapo, where I put almost all my works, even the ones that I have made when I was 9 years old. In that place I sold my first work.

                                                      

                                                           This is the paint that I sell

In this moment I have actually a exposition in a notary, and it will last 1 week more.

Every time I travel to Copiapo, I go to Marcela's workshop, and paint, because here in Santiago I don't really have time.

Postgraduate studies

At the moment, I have two plans for the future
My first plan, and the one I belive I will follow, is that after I finish architecture, I would take the course of architectonical conservation and restauration, in FAU.
I would like to take this course because, since I was a child, I have been always interested in those old beautiful buildings that were left alone, falling apart, and I couldn't understand, and still can't, why they were in those conditions. My ideal is change that, and take them back to their glorious times.
The place were I would study this course is in FAU, but if  for some reasons I have the oportunity to take this course in another coutry, I would take it, specially if it's in France or Italy, places were are more advance in this kind of fields.

The other plan that is alot more fictional, but I still think about it, is about after finishing architecture, I would keep studying Arts. That's because I really love art, and everything that comes with it. In fact, before I choose architecture, I was in a big trouble, because I didn't know what to choose, Arts or Architecture. I finally took the choice of architecture, and I don't regret it.
The idea of studying arts would be in another coutry, but for that I first would have to work alot.
This idea is not my favorite because I know that after I finish architecture, I will be exhausted.