Clothes Line

The red leather jacket

 That sweaty leather jacket was Alberto’s mother fascination. She used to wear it every time she felt an eager excitement of dressing up or playing rock and roll. Or even when she needed to go out for a lonely walk and forget about her mother roll for a minute. Alberto didn’t like the jacket, first because the smell reminded him of his grandparents farm, second because of the red skin pieces that will fall down from the jacket leaving red confetti in the couch, and third because he didn’t like hugging his mom with that jacket it felt almost plastic like, sweaty and uncomfortable. But he knew that her mother looked fantastic in that leather jacket, her juvenile spirit sparkled, and just by wearing it for a while she was a little fresher are brighter.

Alberto’s mother was a joyful, creative woman. She will paint the rice in colors for Alberto and his brother Pablo, she had fun painting it, and she laughed a lot when friends would come over and be freak out by the blue rise and wouldn’t eat it. She felt it was necessary to change the color of life sometimes in a while. And that was exactly what the red leather jacket did to her, enliven life with red.

Response to Life on the screen

The reading talks about the human relationship to the computer. It explores how computers are beyond tools and also serve as interactions that are causing our society to perceive communications in a different level.  Sherry Turkle, the writer, is a professor of social studies and technology who has engaged herself in different virtual activities to understand further the cybernetic identities that humans explore.  “A rapidly expanding system of networks, collectively known as the

Internet, links millions of people in new spaces that are changing the way

we think, the nature of our sexuality, me form of our communities, our

very identities.” This quote emphasizes the importance of this resent technology we encounter ourselves engage with every day.

For us, as a transitional generation, we are more aware of the involvement we now have with a cybernetic reality, but yet we had let it take part of our lives to such an extent that some wouldn’t imagine their lives without a computer, it has become part of them. That is what amazes me, that even when we live our childhood without the computer and we know how much fun is to play in the mud and feel the physical reality, we decide not to give importance or even be aware that the change is so radical and impactful, we accept it fully and care not about the physical reality anymore, we even pretend we don’t need it. We think it can all happen in the virtual world. For a kid that was born surrounded by computers it would be harder to accept the need of physicality in human nature, or to even explore it. We need physical interactions, and in my point of view humanity will fall into catharsis when we realize that the virtual world will never fulfill our human needs.

Reading response to Article Photos of the World’s Oldest Living Things

The photographer Rachel Sussman decided to start a project taking pictures of the oldest organisms alive in the world. She then traveled around the globe capturing the magnificence of our struggling and vulnerable yet alive and resistant environment, which we affect more and more.

This article is highly visual, for the environmental pictures together with the explanation are what captivates your thoughts, but if the reader is interested and read further about those organisms we can easily discover how amazing they are. Breathing and reproducing slowly after thousands and thousands of years. Ancient  beings steadily observing, giving and taking to our environment.

For me learning about the past and present and being sentient of the things alive and our environment gives me more reasons to celebrate and take care of the place I live. The more I learn, see and feel all this beings sharing the world with me, and what happened through time so that we can be here right now all part of diversity makes me conscious and aware of who am I. 

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Photos-of-the-Worlds-Oldest-Living-Things-183823771.html?c=y&page=1&navigation=previous#IMAGES

I am exercise

I am free

I am physical

I am intuitive

I am radical

I am rebellious

I am chaotic

I am sensible

I am feminist

I am uncomfortable

I am hungry

I am tranquil

I am determined

I am worried

I am careful

I am careless

I am loud

I am quiet

I am fire

I am water

I am 

Reading Response to Susan Blackmore, What is Consciousness?

“Accepting dualism is giving up, but avoiding it is not easy” There is certainly a constant man struggle with mind and body, there is an extended dialogue which rises questions and no objective answers, for it seems to be further than science. According to the reading Feinberg said the way to approach the brain is to question, “what the brain does not what the brain is”

The way I think about it is, of course there is certain explanatory characteristics in the individuals that can be describe through science, such as the DNA, our physical qualities, etc. Yet is through our experiences as well that we arrive to individual thinking. The body is the constant, the mind is the change. We are 50% genes 50% environment. It is not so much in the dualism of the body and the mind, because I believe that certainly is in dialogue, but rather on how mind functions, (what the brain does). As William James conclude “much of what goes on in the nervous system is unconscious and that our conscious experiences depend upon unconscious processing” .

Another interesting point in the reading that wasn’t  only mentioned but not discussed that I would have not taken for granted was the idea of Intentionality and the meaning of this word. I recently read an article by Susan Sontag titled “Against interpretation” that talked about audiences wanting to interpret all artists intentions, yet this rises different discourse especially for me as an artist. What is our need to interpret? Why do we assume there is always an intention?

Emoticon Exercise

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Araucaria seeds

This seeds are from an Araucaria tree. I collected them in a trip I made to Misiones, the jungle in the north of Argentina. This tree is endanger, it represents a lot for the people of Misiones and its vital for the animals in the region.

Pink hand knitted waistcoat

This item was hand knitted by my great-grandmother. My grandmother and mother used it when they were my age.

Painted portrait with photograph and poem

My brother painted this portrait. He gave it to me as a present after I left home to live in Hong Kong. In it my sister my brother and I are represented when we were young. The picture shows us three at he time he gave it to me, the picture inside the painting has at the same time a picture of the painting showing a never ending cylce. Behind the portrait there is a hand written poem that my brother wrote that talks about life and waves, contemplation and happiness.