Future Job

Today I'm gonna tell you about my future job.
I'm studying visual art, my major is engraving, I chose it because I like drawing. However I didn't really know much about engraving. After spending so much time working in this workshop, I learnt a lot of techniques, like etching, lithography, xylography, I learnt to be careful and clean, and be patient, now I love it and I would like to do it for the rest of my life.
For this reasons I’d like to get a job as printer in an engraving workshop. In a job like that you have to be clean, meticulous, patient, you have to be a good printer. But everything that I say depends of each engraving workshop, because it’s all different, there are workshops in what the boss are more exigent that in other workshop, there are workshops with people that is a mess, some workshops are organized and clean, others are disorganized and dirty, like the engraving workshop of the university.
If someday I’ll get a job in a engraving workshop, I would like that the workshop was clean and organized and that the boss was exigent, because I like to do a good job, rather, a excellent job.
I think that I can get a job like that, because if you ask to me about my strengths and weaknesses I'll say that I have all necesary to work in an engraving workshop, I'm organized, clean, patient, and a good printer, but I don't like work with other persons, and sometimes I get frustrated easily, but not much.

Music

Music is a very important part of my life.. I specially like rock and classical music. Every day I listen metal or punk music but if I have to choose one kind of music I'll choose classical music, I think that it is very complete, it happens to me that sometimes I think the other music is boring, because in a moment you can realize that battery, guitar, rhythm, pulse.. everything don't change very much of one song to other, but with classical music it's different, because in a one piece of music we can find different moments, like a moments when music is faster than other, sad or lively, quiet or energetic, and you can see that in concerts, symphonies, songs, etc. because it have movements, that it's been divide according to the tempo (e.g. Adagio, Presto, Allegro, Andante, etc.) and it have points of tension that other music isn't consider.

Well, when I was twelve I start to listen music and I found a band that had a violin, and since that moment I love violin and I wanted one... and when I was fourteen my father gave a violin to me. I think … since that moment I love classical music. I think It has everything that you need to listen, because.... also there are a big variety as to composers I refer and instruments too! You can listen Baroque, Classic, Romantic music, etc... Vivaldi, Bach, Mahler, Bartók, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Cage, etc. They are all different, but it's all called “classical music”.

 There are so many instruments, composers, music... different cultures that make different kind of music.. (classical music) I found music is fascinating... 

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Why did I choose to study art

I always liked draw,  since I was a little child and I always wanted to study art, but I began to think seriously in this when I was in high school, I don't know why... well, in any case... I always have been related to art, because I have an uncle who was studied art, here where I'm studying now.

To be honest, for a moment I doubted it (study art) because I began to play violin and I loved that very much, so much that I thought study violin, but I had a problem.. well, more than one problem, problems with my parents, with school, etc. After that I decided study art, it was a kind of rebelliousness, I don't tell that to anyone until I had postulated to enter in this career. My parents hate me, but now they resign themselves... they don't like that, but they have to understood one way or another.

Now I can say that after all I'm happy with my decision to study art and I don't care what happen I always do that.

I don't know what I'm going to do when I graduate, but I hope find a job in any engraving workshop, because it's my speciality... I think I'm going to do that.

I love drawing, I love engraving, I love art (and I love my violin)

My best holiday

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I remember when I was a child... with my family we travelled every summer to Valdivia or a place near of that city.
My best holiday were when we went to Calafquen lake, It was in 2004 or 2005, I don't remember the year very well.. I went with all my family (my three sisters and my parents) we camp in a place that called 'Ecocamping' I remember that because one of my sisters wrote a song with that name, the most stupid song that I ever heard, and every time we go out of the camping she sang her song.
In that summer we went to hot thermal baths, we went to Coñaripe, Licanray, Riñihue and Ranco lakes and others little towns around.

Everything was perfect, but one day the wheater change and rained all day, rained so much that we had to slept in the car (me and my parents) and my sisters slept in the house of the owner. But... actually it wasn't bad, it was funny!
After that we had to go to another place, because we couldn't camp there.

I always remember that holidays, because Valdivia it's beautiful, because we had to sleep in the car, and actually... I really don't know why, but I passed a very good time with my family.

Firts term: good and bad points

Well... in my last semester many things happened in my life.

First we had summer classes in January and in February we finally went on holidays, in April one of my sisters went to live with her boyfriend (that was good), then I went to live to another house... in the country and we grew a vegetable garden! but there were rabbits living around and they ate some of the vegetables.

Another event was that my sister call my mother on the phone and she tell us she was pregnant.

My oldest sister had a lower jaw operation and she went to live with me and my family.

In the university everything was normal (except for the class in January) I passed all my subjects and I knew two persons very special and now they are very important in my life because they supported me in very difficult moments like when I broke up with my boyfriend.

Bleak Paintings

I admire Maya Kulenovic since that I known her, she is a Canadian painter, She was born in 1975 in Sarajevo, now living and working in Toronto. Well... she has four series of paintings: faces, landscape, build and stills. Her paintings are very bleak. Maya Kulenovic has exhibited in over twenty solo exhibitions and over fourty group shows and art fairs. Her paintings can be seen in numerous collections around the world.

Here you can see an examples of her work:

Faces:

Build:

Land:

Stills:

 

Always struck me that kind of atmosphere, the conflict between shadows and light, in what sometimes seems darkness wins the battle, but suddenly light appears from nowhere for show some gloomy buildings, faces and landscape. About her work she said ''Art is a form of daily meditation on the three cornerstones of human experience: life, death and love. The many permutations of these three shape our daily events and human behaviour- our collective history, memory and hope.

Most of my works bear some reference to war, mortality and fragility of culture. The extreme experiences of war and genocide, as collective madness, evoke an element of chaos and transform our collective consciousness, bringing out both its creative and destructive elements. I think of my paintings as investigations into the unreliable nature of safety, possessions and knowledge - and the search for spirituality of some sort, as a promise of compassion.''

In this video you can see her work in progress:

Are you an animal lover?

Are you an animal lover? Well, I'm not. I like animals, but I don't consider myself an animal lover. I never had a pet when I was a child, but now I have a dog, she is very lovely, playful and shy, that is her main characteristic. As I said before I'm not an animal lover, but that doesn't mean that I don't care anything about them. I think that animals shouldn't be used for medical research, I simply refuse that idea. In my opinion, animals should be free in their natural environment, therefore I think the zoo should have never existed, I have never liked it. I still remember when I was a child and I went to the zoo with my classmate, when I left that place I was very sad, I was a little girl and I thought It was very unfair that animals were in jail and I consider that people who buy and wear fur coat are persons without common sense and sensitivity. 

Talking about my pet... in the summer of this year she bit me one of my finger of my left hand and I couldn't play violin or do anything with that hand about one month, but it was my fault... I was giving her chicken in its snout, I didn't that very careful, and she bit me.. well, despite that, I think dogs shouldn't be muzzled. Well... always I have liked reptiles... and if I would be an animal I should like be any reptile.. a snake, a cocodrile, etc. But I also like ferrets, they are beautiful, so cute and curious. Yes, I know it was the opposite of the reptile but.... it's my way.

A lovely photo!

A lovely photo! This photograph was taken by my little sister in September 2008, when I went to high school. The photo is out of focus..my sister isn't good photographer, and this is evident, but I love it. The people in this photograph are me and my boyfriend at that moment we were in my house using the computer when suddenly my sister appeared with the camera and she said to me: "look at me!" and then instinctively I hug my boyfriend and made the big v... when I saw the photo I realized that my boyfriend made a very funny face. I like this photo 'cause when I see it I remember good and bad times that I spent with him and it reminds me how happy I was then.

Films

Action Films, that's what I like!! My all-time favourite movie is Lord of the Rings, is a movie based in a epic fantasy novel written By J.R.R. Tolkien, a genius!.. the novel and films consist in three parts.. The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two towers and The Return of the King. It's about one ring created by the dark Lord Sauron to dominate the other rings of power and the destruction of the one ring by a little character called Frodo.

The main actors are Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Ian Mckellen, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan , Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, John Rhys-Davies, Sean Bean, Ian Holm and Hugo Weaving. I like this films principally because it's based in the novel Lord of the Rings write by Tolkien, and I like very much this writer, He created a new world and a long story... very epic story with swords! dwarf, elfs and wizards! and in the dark side.. Orcs and the Dark Lord, and the music is beautiful, I see this movies six times (?) every year I see that once or twice. Definitely I reccomend Lord of the Rings.. is once of the movie that you have to see in your life. If you ask me which film I would like to see again.. my answer is definitely Lord of the rings! I love it!

My favourite piece of Technology

Pendrive Mp3.. this is my favourite piece of technology, my first pendrive I got for Christmas when I was fourteen, but i lost it about two years ago...was so sad.. but then my boyfriend gave it to me long time ago, I don't remember exactly when it happened.

Music

Music... is part of my life. A very important part of my life. Music makes me feel free and understood, specially the kind of music that I like: Rock, Metal and classical music.

I have a lot of favourites groups and composers, one of the classical composer that I like is Ludwig van Beethoven, because he is very enthusiast, very creative and.. just... a genius, another one is Johann Sebastian Bach, I like this composer, because he inspired almost all the groups of metal music that I like. My favourite Rock band is Deep Purple, because they are very complete musically, they had one of the best guitarist in the world, Ritchie Blackmore.

Always I've wanted to see them in a concert, but I've seen others groups that I like, for example Rhapsody of Fire and Judas Priest. The last concert that I went to was Roger Waters, and it was awesome! the best that I've seen in my life! but if I was a song... I would be a song of Deep Purple, Child in time, I think this is one of the best songs of the band and a very important song in the history of rock music, this song has a very intensive moments and moments very quiet. This is a passionate and peacefully song at the same time, and I like that.

For another hand, I play violin, I love it! it's... almost... all my life. Obviously I can read music, but not very well..

Well... in conclusion I think that music is very important in our life, music makes us understand the world and we can relate a lot of things. We can connected the instinctive of this with the rational of other things and so achieve a logic that includes many more things.

My auto biography

Hi! my name is Camila Cornejos. I was born in Santiago, Chile. I went to Desiree School, this period of my life isn't very interesting, but in the high school I went to another school, Liceo N°1 Javiera Carrera, I didn't have much friends, but I have very good memories and I really enjoyed that, I finished high school in 2009. I like art... since... always, and now I'm here, studying Visual Arts at Universidad de Chile.

In my family we are six persons, I have three sisters. I'm the third.

I have a lot of hobbies, I playing the violin, I love playing rol games, watching tv series and movies (especially with my boyfriend), reading.