Francisca nuez

When I began this university degree I thought I would study all my life, now  I don’t think to study postgraduate course in the future, because I’m exhausted. I´m finishing the second university degree, then in the future I would like to study informally. I love to learn, but in the future I’ll study slower pace, compatible with my job and home life. I believe I I’ll study some pottery techniques: potter's wheel or work on porcelain, like a advanced training course, because my current project art is a mix between textile and pottery. There are a lot of great ceramist here, in Santiago, maybe in the future I’ll travel to Japan or U.K. because this countries are world leaders in that area.  The next year I’ll be working on my thesis, also I would like to go to 11th International Shibori Symposium. I would present a piece of my work and I would attend a few workshops about Shibori or similar topics. I think a great idea to study from a book, I have a bible of Shibori...

Years ago I studied industrial design, but I don’t like it  and I never work on design area. Now I study Art -my speciality is textile art- and I have reconciled with my facet as designer. In the near future I will work as freelance textile designer, for some time I work freelance from home. I will design a textile product line, like a scarves, bags, notebooks, pencil case, meditation cushion. My work will be as green as possible, so these accessories will made with natural fabrics and coloured with natural dyes. In the coming months I will learn how to use natural dyes, for example onion skin, walnut shell, iron oxide or tea, this will be outdoor work. wallnut shell dye After that, I will do some material testing and several prototypes, to decide what kind of fabric and size will be the best for every design. And the final colour that will be applied. The issue of color is essential and challenging to me, because to obtain the wished colour is difficult, in particular...

I will speak about  one character from one of my favorite series: The Expanse. This series  it is about science fiction, it is set in the XXIII century when the human being has colonize planet Mars and the asteroid belt, there are discontent and war threat. For me the best character is a peculiar character, her name is Chrisjen Avasarala. She is a powerful mature woman, she’s  perfidious and she dresses elegantly. I don’t know how old is she, but she’s a grandmother. This woman lives in the Earth, home of the privileged and government under the UN. She’s a senior official of the UN, from that position she has a great influence a global nivel. But she’s not freely elected, she belongs to a politician ancient family, dating back to the early days of planetary exploration and colonization.  Avasarala claims avoid the war between the Earth and planet Mars. To achieve this objective she uses any manner or trickery possible. In the first chapter, she tortu...