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My favourite movie of all time is "The colour of paradise" which is by an Iranian film director called Mayid Mayidí. The first time I saw this movie I just cried and not only  because of its moving story but also because it was beautifully made. Obviously, I will not tell you what the movie is about , but I recommend it to anybody who wants to see an excellent movie.  The director is Muslim, so according to their religion any representation of God's creation is forbidden. That makes a film (an the rest of the Muslim art) so complex. We are so accustomed to seeing another kind of the representation of nature, feelings and world. In Iranian films, the symbols are very important, and despite the fundamental restrictions , the movie gives us the opportunity to interpret it. And this act is magic for me.        

In the photograph you will see there are saints and religious figures, it was taken in the "hill of the Virgin" in Puente Alto, at the Viscachas sector . A long time ago I used to visit it, just because it has a beautiful view. It is a kind of San Cristobal hill but much smaller and local. The place of prayer contain where the virgin is a small sector on a side of the cave  and it is to leave the remains or vestiges of another figures  religious icons. I found it interesting that the people of the Catholic religion had a cemetery of images and broken saints, as if the truncated, disfigured, discoloured image or anything else did not serve as a representative of faith. Is it much less sacred if it does not meet a class of aesthetic value? ...    

The thing to most i love to do in mi free time is read and take pictures for a lot of things who happens around me. I become in a photographer (amateur by the way...), wen i have mi first camera at the age of 12. Mi mom just replace the old one for a new and she give to me. I remember when mom bribery me with photo roll if i made my homework. Now i become a collector of memories and i like the idea for " freeze a moment" and becoming in a digital memory.  I don't have so much time for made it right now, but i try to make constantly as i can. Also i like to read novels and informative texts about what interests me at the time ... (like textile stuff, for example), and made this with regularity because its part of the dairy life...  The photographers i like is: Tina Modotti , Tim Walkers , Robert Ballen , Mario Testino And another but i can't remember now.  😞  

  My favorite technological devices is a needle and a loom. In a lot of cultures, the works to mean the use of this technological devices is very important because in a textile work they put in the most symbolical word view. In the past, the precolonial people of south america they did  not have writing and all his cultural inheritance it was put on a textile piece. The needle and the loom its become a sacred object because the are so important for the culture and religion stuff because represent the past and the future, the goodness and evil, the place you live and even you social status (even now its like that).  The use of this two devices means everything for they, and for mi now 😀, is fascinating!!  There is a example for Paracas funeral robes ⇨⇨⇨⇨ Mantos-Funerarios-de-Paracas This beautifully made robes its made with a loom and a needle (and another things), but the most important is the symbolic act to use them.    This year i learn to make mi first textil