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Blog 5 - My favorite street artist

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    Banksy is the pseudonym by which the popular English street artist is known and, although most of the information about his identity is unknown, some research indicates that he was born in a town near Bristol in 1974. Very little is known about Banksy himself, since he refuses to be interviewed and carefully maintains his anonymity. The British street art artist began his career in the 1990s as part of an art collective that managed to produce his works without being arrested for vandalism. This origin was what led him to use the stencil, because it allowed him to work faster and thus not be caught by the police. Most of his works, visible in London and in various cities around the world, are pieces on pop culture, morals, politics, consumerism and racism. His works speak of the evils that the world and laugh sarcastically at the hypocrisy and selfish lifestyle of modern societies. I find his work admirable, since as a good street artist he manages to install a very lucid political
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Blog 4-The educational system in our country

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 As we well know, in our country education is organized through a mixed system, a system made up of two types of establishments in which the main difference has to do with the type of financing that educational institutions receive. In that sense, on the one hand we find with public education where the state assumes a subsidiary role, and on the other with private education that is financed by private entities and third parties. Often part of the discussion has been the fact that there are inequalities between the quality of education provided by public institutions and private institutions, and that is why it seems relevant to ask the following question: Do private schools offer higher quality education or are they just prestigious? Although, in my opinion, economic resources are not in a directly proportional relationship with the quality of the education that is delivered, they do ensure certain standards that are necessary for the proper development of students, such as the provisi
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Blog 3-The importance of religion

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 Is religion important to me? The truth is that despite the fact that I have been in contact and known many religions throughout my life, such as the Catholic, Christian and Adventist religion, I have never felt that this play an important or fundamental role in my life. I believe that religion seeks to answer to things that are not relevant to me or things that I think are beyond the reach of our understanding. In my opinion, the church and religion are not spaces very open to dialogue with the community or with its parishioners, and rather they are institutions that promote ideas of an absolutist nature that, between other things, restrict people's freedom. In addition, I think that sometimes they promote values such as guilt, sacrifice and judgment to others, in other words, practices and ideas that transgress some of their own principles. However, I fully understand and respect that there are people who find refuge in those beliefs and in this place. I personally find tha
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Blog 2-The health service in our country

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 Hello dear reader, in this post I am going to speak and give my opinion about the health service of our country. As we well know, the health system in Chile works through two types of medical insurance, on the one hand this Fonasa aimed at the public sector, and on the other the Isapres aimed at the private sector. This division, as in education, implies gradual inequalities between the care received by people who can pay for it and those who cannot, something that is quite problematic, if we consider that we are talking about a first need. However, both insurances have drawbacks. While hospitals have to deal with the lack of personnel and supplies, the infrastructure deficit, high demand and long waiting lists, among many others, in the private network people have to pay high prices for services, and the disparity between the plans paid by men and women is disgraceful. Unfortunately in our country, health is not a right that is insured by the state for all people, but it is a consume
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Blog 1-The importance of the vote

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  Hello everyone, in this post I am going to be talking about the importance of voting.   Image by Libby Vanderploeg For a couple of years in our country, a phenomenon has been happening that the media defines as a “crisis of representativeness”, this has basically to do with the lack of participation of citizens in electoral political processes, and implies a problem that weakens democracy and its legitimacy. This distance with politics is produced mainly by the loss of prestige of its actors and institutions, because year after year, we see a series of political figures pass by, who deceive citizens with false campaign promises that after being elected they never fulfill, something that generates discomfort, lack of credibility and disinterest. Corruption and lack of commitment have gradually led people to stop going to the polls, and consequently, today we have a government that in my opinion does not represent us and that ignores the real needs of the people. Although politics
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Post 7 : A subject you enjoy studying

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  One of the subjects that I have enjoyed the most as a student of Theater Design is "Graphic Techniques". Graphic Techniques is a subject in the practical area of my degree, which has six levels throughout the program. As its name says, in this subject different techniques and tools are studied to express ourselves graphically, which specifically help us to be able to project our designs through visual material. Costume sketch for Bertolt Brecht's Antigone by Paula González In the first two levels, analog drawing is taught and the construction of perspective and the human body is specifically reviewed, which are basic learning to be able to make sketches of costumes and scenery, then in the third, fourth and fifth level, digital drawing is taught, where different computer programs that are used to compose and animate sketches of costumes, scenery and lighting are reviewed, and at the last level, authorship is worked, a course that is much freer in terms of the use of t
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Post 6 : How can your major make the world a better place

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 I am not sure that art can change the world but I do believe that it produces a profound impact on society and its transformation, the human being is subject to change and art has a positive impact on the development of each person and, therefore so much, of each society. The theater expresses behaviors, ideas, habits and achieves changes at the group level, since the proposals of its work are diverse and are directed at children, youth and adults, addressing different topics and social problems that always leave a message on which to reflect. As a theatrical designer, I have the responsibility of building, through visuality, an aesthetic political discourse that dialogues with people, and that collaborates with the message that is to be transmitted. This, which almost always involves a call to consciousness, can generate, even if it is small, a change in the people who observe my work. In this sense, the importance of showing the vices of our society on stage has to do with giving
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