That's right, I'm back... 3 years and 3 cats more later.
I have a lot of updates, but for now I just want to share this draft I found here, I dont know exactly when I wrote it but Im guessing it was at least 2 years ago.
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R said that I am not as tomboy as I claim to be. I guess that is right, since I have this light artifact to dry some special kind of nail polish.
I do my nails sometimes, but they don't last much, either they fall because of cleaning, fixing something, playing with the cats, or I just take them off myself when I have to print an etching or something.
If you ever printed an intaglio copper plate, you know your hands end up looking like you had been fixing the car all day.
So next time you see the hands of someone who works on printing, do not rush into thinking that is dirt. That in their nails that make them look like a car mechanic, is ink. Isn't that beautiful? Not that the mechanics' hands dont have their charm as well. I like them.
Today I am just going to paint them black.
I have a small art studio here in my apartment. When I started teaching in high school, I got my first Tórculo (Im not sure about the English word for it, but it's a press to print etchings), and installed an art studio in an empty room at my parent's house.
I was 23 at the time. A few years later, when I got my own apartment, I moved the studio here and I've been fighting with myself to keep it organized since then...
And this is a song I love and my poor attempt to translate it:
Un astronauta y una bruja (An astronaut and a witch)
Viajan en una burbuja derechito para el sol (are traveling in a bubble directly to the sun)
Ese fuego que creció (that fire that grew stronger)
Si se calienta el detergente (if the soap gets hot)
Y revienta eso que sienten (and their feelings pop)
Pueden perder el control (they can loose control)
Y también la conexión (and the connection)
Certidumbre o ilusión (certainty or illusion)
Epidérmica ficción (epidermal friction)
El cree en naves espaciales (he believes in star ships)
Y en efectos especiales que nunca verificó (and special effects that he never verified)
Que en su puta vida vió (that he didnt see in his F*ck**ng life)
Ella practica con escobas (she practices with brooms)
Ve el futuro en una bola (she sees the future in a crystal ball)
Que un colgado le vendió (that a scatterbrain sold her)
Y también la convenció (and he convinced her too)
De su poder interior (of her inner power)
Esa magia de cartón (that cardboard magic)
Y en el aire (and in the air..)
Ruegan (they beg...)
Gotas de amor (drops of love)
Gotas de amor
El vago juega con la idea (he plays with the idea)
De crear un gran sistema (of creating a big system)
Que permita otra fusión (that allows a new fusion)
Otro tipo de valor (a different type of value)
Pero la bruja lo contiene (but the witch stops him)
Y adivina lo que quiere (and predicts what he wants)
Porque él ya fue y volvió(because she went and came back)
Al infierno del terror(to the terror hell)
A ese mundo tan glotón(to that glutton world)
Que te come el corazón(that eats your heart)
A veces pasa que la fiebre (some times the fever)
Sube misteriosamente y se retira sin razón(increases misteriusly and retreat with no reason)
Como toda aparición (as every apparittion)
Eh, una burbuja reventada (a popped bubble)
Ya no significa nada(does not mean anything anymore)
Y abatidos van los do'( and sad they go)
Sin creencia o religión(without beliefs or religion)
Alejándose del sol(going away from the sun)
En opuesta dirección(in oposite directions)
Un retorno eterno (an eternal return)
Al vacío (to the emptiness)
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I don't know but phrases like: "Cardboard magic", and "that glutton world that eats your heart" ...
uff... that's art...
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