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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
winners play and players win
ABOUT ME
I like to know persons, places and things.i like experience that is why i am interested in art, art and life are not an a priori knowledge, they need to be known by contact, by instinct,by a face to face relation, by the question: what does it feel?
I like to talk,to jump, to drink , to move, to hear,SEE , TOUCH , SMELL , THINK , BREATH and party, IN FACT life is a party so i like to party .
I like to see faces i am portrait drawing fan.
Practice is an essential part of preaching.
I also love museums, i found in museums a very interactive source of knowledge and of experience.why i can do i am a painter and i love painting.
I like to do things, i found very difficult to reject invitations.
PHILOSOPHY
I trust in the power of art as a sublime instrument of dissatisfaction from any kind of imposed reality.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
By a mututal exchange of knowledge, experience and relationships, i like to help travelers that are visiting places i know or where i live as i would like to receive help and companion while i am traveling.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
AMAZING !!! this couchsurfing thing is an AMAZING idea and a very intresting , is something that resist the inhumanizing tendency is like a new society that still believe in friendship, honesty and trust. Really couchsurfing has teach me a most valuable lesson: WE CAN STILL TRUST IN EACH OTHER
Interests
i am interested in art , i know more of visual arts as painting, drawing, sculpture , photography, installation, video, but i also love music very much.
i also like almost any way that art get materialized,form theater to poetry , from movies to situations.
- arts
- poetry
- theater
- photography
- partying
- drinking
- movies
- traveling
- painting
- drawing
- music
- history
- tourism
- visual arts
Music, Movies, and Books
i like rock music bands like king crimson, primus, morphine, led zeppelin, black sabbath , the cream. but also i like grunge as soundgarden, alice in chains pearl jam ,stone temple pilots.
nowadays i am going to a lot of concerts of "classical" and "contemporary " music , i like shostakovich, stravinsky, brahms, bach and mozart . but also i like ligeti , bartok, feldman, penderecki and john cage.
Nowadays i am reading things about theory of art, aesthetics and also writings of artists.
i like movies but something happen in my brain when i need to remember long stories as the average movies tell, i am currently working in experimental cinema and the relations between the people who watch cinema and where and what is watching.
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
The jan van eyck mitic lamb at Gent , Belguim i mean is one of the most beautiful and amazing pieces of art i have ever seen , i cry in front of it for an hour not being capable of control myself.
I work one day photographing and drawing petrogliphs in the sun in sinaloa , mexico with a temperature of 50 degrees celsius, my brain almost start to hibernate and disconect too much heat.
Teach, Learn, Share
I LIKE TO TEACH DRAWING , i always carry with all kind of materials for drawing,
I can teach some thing concerned to photography i am good with it.
i can also be a museum guide cause i like a lot history of art.
I can share my drawingssss and paintingssss.
I like to learn anything from anyone.
Countries I’ve Visited
Argentina, Aruba, Austria, Belgium, Chile, France, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay
Countries I’ve Lived In
Mexico