Motivation letter to "go know", january 2008
Once again, these Christmas, the little altar embedded in the wall of the entrance hall at my home in Spain welcomed me as I entered the door. This is a special altar; some beautiful antique restored Indian window shutters that my mom bought near the historic Red Forts in New Delhi and latter restored, adding to its background a painting of a Hindu god; a humanized fish that holds up children of different races with its many arms, representing solidarity and equality. With sparkling candles, perfumed incense and pictures or poems, it shelters my mother’s wishes, prays, and hopes.
The Indian culture has inspired and delighted to all those who I know have experienced it. People are happy and wise, they say, and they also assure that it is not easy to see what there happens, it is a hard reality which is to be found. And I think to myself: what could be better than study and analyze this reality, to get deep into such an intriguing and multilayered urban condition and maybe then become to a better understanding of our own truth, and so be able to help to change things, to help them and to help ourselves, to knock down (maybe just a few bricks) the frontier that divides the world, an unfair and shellfish frontier.
I’ve always enjoyed inquire into other cultures and to live them as profoundly as possible. For this reason is that I have traveled by myself whenever I have had the time. I first traveled by my own when I was fourteen years old to work in Ireland for a month and a half. Latter I traveled to New York, I was older and a bit more mature, explored more around, walked along the streets, met a lot of people, and got impressed by this imposing and multicultural city. One year ago I went to Denmark, and worked in a farm for two months, experiencing another way of live and meeting a lot of people from different countries, with different necessities, and so, with different working rhythms.
My father is from Chile, and so we went all together there in order to meet our family and roots. It was so impressing, the social and economic differences were extreme, sometimes even frightening, and for the first time saw squatter settlements and people living in really poor conditions. At these places people had to accept each other and learned not to complain about their situation, they just accepted it and sometimes worked hard, other times lost hopes.
I think it is very important to see and feel the world that we inhabit from all its possible corners and gaps. But traveling is not enough, I need advise; want to learn to program and to apply what I learn. I think that this experience would be so didactive and useful to my future. I want to work there in team, share the experience and apply it in the best possible way. Reading the slum of Dharavi and expressing it and trying to order a little this apparent chaos is a very ambitious approach and this studio has a privileged program in order to learn to do so and latter have tools to understand other places, cities and culture.
The Indian culture has inspired and delighted to all those who I know have experienced it. People are happy and wise, they say, and they also assure that it is not easy to see what there happens, it is a hard reality which is to be found. And I think to myself: what could be better than study and analyze this reality, to get deep into such an intriguing and multilayered urban condition and maybe then become to a better understanding of our own truth, and so be able to help to change things, to help them and to help ourselves, to knock down (maybe just a few bricks) the frontier that divides the world, an unfair and shellfish frontier.
I’ve always enjoyed inquire into other cultures and to live them as profoundly as possible. For this reason is that I have traveled by myself whenever I have had the time. I first traveled by my own when I was fourteen years old to work in Ireland for a month and a half. Latter I traveled to New York, I was older and a bit more mature, explored more around, walked along the streets, met a lot of people, and got impressed by this imposing and multicultural city. One year ago I went to Denmark, and worked in a farm for two months, experiencing another way of live and meeting a lot of people from different countries, with different necessities, and so, with different working rhythms.
My father is from Chile, and so we went all together there in order to meet our family and roots. It was so impressing, the social and economic differences were extreme, sometimes even frightening, and for the first time saw squatter settlements and people living in really poor conditions. At these places people had to accept each other and learned not to complain about their situation, they just accepted it and sometimes worked hard, other times lost hopes.
I think it is very important to see and feel the world that we inhabit from all its possible corners and gaps. But traveling is not enough, I need advise; want to learn to program and to apply what I learn. I think that this experience would be so didactive and useful to my future. I want to work there in team, share the experience and apply it in the best possible way. Reading the slum of Dharavi and expressing it and trying to order a little this apparent chaos is a very ambitious approach and this studio has a privileged program in order to learn to do so and latter have tools to understand other places, cities and culture.
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