Blog de Paula Constanza

  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 ...

  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...

 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 giv...

  Well... As you can see, today I bring you a photo, that personally I really like and I'm going to talk to you a bit about it . This winning photograph of the prestigious worldwide contest "35Awards" in the category “Reportage Photography” was taken by Javier Vergara (independent photographer) during protests that occurred in Chile at the end of 2019, in the context of the so-called "Social Outbreak" . In the image we can see how protesters protect themselves with a shield from water cannon used by the Chilean Special Police Forces . As we well know, there are many shocking images that the revolt of October 18 th left us, however, among others, this one seems very powerful to me, because it captures the exact moment in which people as a whole resist the repressive action of the police. The way in which the group of protesters covers themselves, the impact of the water suspended in the air and the way in which the Chilean flag emerges from chaos, I think it re...

Hello, today I am going to talk to you about my favorite food and also a bit about my diet . First, I must say that the subject of meal is something that I interest me a lot . From a while ago, that I have taken more conscience about I eat and how that affect not only me, but also other living things, and that's why that since a year ago, I started to be a vegetarian. At the beginning, it seemed difficult to make vegetarian tasty dishes and I thought that I would have to cook very different things than before, but soon I realized that when I was carnivorous often also I ate inadvertently vegetarian dishes, as “The fabulous rice with french fries” .   Rice with french fries is a food that I love, it have good flavor, it is cheap to make and easy to cook, you only need a package of rice, a few potatoes, water, oil, and some seasoning, which are ingredients that you can find everywhere. It will barely take you 20 minutes to make the rice and 15 minutes to fry the potatoes so that ...

Hello, in this new post I'm going to tell to you about my favourite piece of technology , or at least the one I use the most . For beginning, I must say that I have never been very friend of technology, I don't know for what reason but suposse that it's simply because no catch my attention, in fact I got my first cell phone and my first computer (that are the main technological objects I have) when I was already older , and that's why I don't believe I have any that are favorites . However, when I entered at university I started use to quite my laptop for do works and I realized that it was an indispensable tool. From then that I have used it to design through of several programs, such as Photoshop, Sketchup, Lxfree, among others, and also for doing works theoretical. In that respect, the computer has helped me a lot in my learning process during the career, and because of that I have taken affection it and even It has become one of the most valuable objects f...

  Hello everyone, in this second post I will be talking about my life, academic experience, career and professional decisions . When I was a child I wanted to be many things (well…until today) . At first I wanted to be a chef and I suppose it was because I liked a lot to eat cakes, because actually I have never been skilled at cooking . Later, I remember that I wanted to be a dancer, in fact I joined and participated in a lot of dance academies meanwhile I was highschool . In that time, I felt that dance was my passion, and I was determined to study it, but then I got sick and I decided to leave it . When I finished highschool I was a little bit lost about the continuation of my studies, I knew that I liked all things associated with artistic creation, I always was drawing, painting, sewing clothes, fixing things and making inventions, and for that reason I thought to study   costume design however that did not quite convince me . One day , browsing the internet (...