Marcela Bolivar / Mercurio, Azufre y Ceniza @ ADN
Today is the day! (at last)
After lots of difficulties and dramas my thesis will be finally revealed to the public here in my city. The opening will be this evening, but I’m only nervous for tomorrow when I present it to the jurors to evaluate it. I know most of the people who reads this blog isn’t even in my country so I promise I’ll be posting pics of the whole event, those prints look amazing. Finally after all this year of hard work I can see the results!
One year of my blog! / little tragedy
This blog is turning 1 year this month. The exact day was the 13th, but it was impossible for me to stop a moment and change my writing rythm (thesis). And no, I´m definitely not a multitasking person! I wanted to thank the ones that take a little time to leave an opinion, a commentary, or just to take a moment to watch this place, I never imagined to have such precious interactions through this, because I don´t consider myself a “blogger” or something alike, so it is ALWAYS a surprise for me and a great feeling to see one of you saying hi or leaving a comment on any of my entries. For another year!
Now, one of the reasons for not updating and not stopping for a second is because I´m composing the book with all the images for this series, plus a long body of text. Everything was fine until my laptop decided to die on me. JUST NOW. Fortunately enough I did a thousand back-ups of all the thesis (this will never happen to me again) but even so, I didn´t had any computer to work on. Now I´m practically stealing my dad´s laptop (which barely can handle InDesign) and a great friend of mine lend me her old one to do the last retouches in Photoshop. Everything´s slow but steady now, I really miss my never-complaining Toshiba, but well, that was my luck at this last days of hard work.
Cheers! (It´s actually 8 am but my room is really dark. And I have no proper face to show these days :p)
Ceniza / Ash (details)
It’s been a while! As always I’ve been submerged in tons of work, ideas, photos, textures. My brain is feeling at the edge of a shut down, not kidding. All I can do is breath deep, listen to some music and then start over again.
Right now I’m assembling the book so the frenetic creative days are much lighter now. Funny thing is that after all these months of composing, sketching, taking pictures, placing textures, distorting shapes, I am completely unable to articulate a sentence with some sense. And all that, just now when I need to complete all these dissertations.
At the same time I feel a bit nostalgic. Sometimes I surprise myself looking at all the time and effort I put into each piece, sometimes without even wanting to, without even noticing or translating that into the final product. It’s been a year of lots of lost ideas, new ones on hold, unfinished concepts and so on, that this series have catalyzed in me proving that this is what I want to do for the rest of my life, this irrepressible impulse of creation I’ve had since so little won’t seem to stop soon.
Here’s the last part of the series. I’m showing the first complete ones very soon! Hope you like.
