Pintor de caras y cuerpos. Me gusta la gente valiente.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm new to the couchsurfing app but I love to travel. A major part of the charm of a city is the people that inhabit it. There's perhaps no better way to really dig into a location than to connect with the locals.

Interests

Painting is my activity. It's what I do with almost all of my spare time. No rest for the obsessed.

• wine
• meditation
• biking
• walnuts
• rice and beans
• icaros
• goya
• zdzislaw beksinski
• palabras
• plantain chips
• jenny ochshorn
• vegetalismo
• dirty boots
• insane cloud formations
• self-dribbling basketballs

Music, Movies, and Books

Rudimentary Peni, Olneyville Sound System, Dogbowl, Los Saicos, Burning Witch, Swell Maps, Black Pus, the Gories, The Birthday Party, Ensaladilla Rusa, White Fence, Foetus, John Lee Hooker, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Kill The Hippies, Quintron, Roy Orbison, Bad Brains, Bob Dylan, The Modern Lovers, The Velvet Underground, Angel Olsen, Cat LeBon, Elliot Smith, the Pastels, Neil Young, Dropdead, Chicha Libre, Los Crudos, Nico, Charlotte Cornfield, Daniel Johnston, The Three Halves of Ino Moxo, Rimbaud, Artaud, Gary Snyder, Down By Law, Aguirre The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, Gummo,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Staying in the amazon rain forest of Peru with local mestizos who showed such care for "the project of Being" made me grateful to be part of this network of human souls that stretches far back into pre-history. The rushing river thrashed endlessly. Down on the rocks that abutted the tributary, close to the heat that its near-boiling water sweated from underwater volcanic activity upriver, the wind sometimes moved the steam in such a way that it completely enshrouded the night and swallowed my body and I could see nothing but soft whiteness around, above and below. The jungle and I seemingly dissolved into warm, white nothing.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Spanish lessons, art, conversation,

Countries I’ve Visited

Chile, France, Italy, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Peru, United States