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BLOG 3: This moment and tomorrow

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  When the wind is still for a little I think about my future, although that future is already here, and thinking about that scares me. At this moment I have my dream job, a part of it, because it is not a job because no one pays me a salary. In situation like this, I sometimes think of a Keats poem, of his magic words “When I have fears that I may cease to be/ before my pen has glean`d my teeming brain,/ Before high-piled books, in charactery…” then, from toe to head I need to be possessed by art, and everything I do has that end, so I hope that death does not reach me soon.   My soul, my eyes, my hands and my entire body is the only skill I need. Even just my existence is enough; leaf over leaf and the sea dark or photo over photo and the wild grass is enough, sometimes just the look of the person I love is enough, because everything is matter, my breath   my life and the life of whoever reads this. I would never call myself a poet, but people call me a poet, that is my...

BLOG1: With the noise of a huge place

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The wet of woods, and the smell of lemons and citrus trees, nature, animals, rocks, roots, the ground under my feet, and other things like plants or rains. Maybe is not a country, maybe is a sensation, an emotional space; it could be a forest in Spain or a forest here in Chile, it could be the jungle and its furious rains, it could be an ancient forest in the deep in China, or some sad and hot place in Africa. That sound and that color are always intense, that is the reason that explains everything, the reason is related to the possibility of creating art like almost everything in my life. Honestly, I would like to live in a place like that, but only for a moderate time, a couple of years, always looking for art, creating art. Cooling airs from tropical country or heat and sweat in front of the Caribbean sea, fair creation! clear and radiant, but also terrible, like life or death.