Comunication breakdown
I've been thinking a lot lately about our role in the world as comunicators. There are those who intent and succeed in boxing in artists into their own agendas, they give us names, job descriptions, do's and don'ts. I believe that this only achieves the foreshortening of minds that otherwise hold the key to more interesting and fulfilling destinies. And maybe this is a matter of definition, of identity. Maybe as kids we shouldn't be molested with the question of what do we want to be when we grow up, but what do we want to do and achieve instead.The whole notion of finding a profession in 2010 and sticking to it seems so archaic and retrograde as going back to feudalism. M

Personas
Lately its becoming more an more complicated to find a conciliation between my different personas, almost to the point of not caring anymore about maintaining anyone happy. And let me just say that I don't mean to come off as a multi-faced individual, one of these hypocritical, back-stabbing turds who only care about appearances... by all means, that's not me. I'm merely talking about survival skills here -you do it to and I challenge you to challenge that very notion -. Lets see, there's the Alex for the mailman (mail-woman in my case, go figure), the Alex for the thrift-store-variety-sunday-shopper, Alex for the job interview, for the intelligent debate, for the midweek's keynote presenta

Art and subjectivity rant
As a personal note, I'm getting sick and tired of trying to find reason and objectivity in everything. I go to school and the faculty insists in the purpose of everything, it accentuates it, it makes a mockery of it. We converse about the difference between art and design, one has a purpose, one doesn't, but then, back from my Fine Arts college days, art does have a purpose, the highest purpose there is... Am I stuck in this purpose thing? Let's unwind for a second, shall we? We live in the most innocuous of places when we think that everything we do has a narrow target audience, a logic interpretation and a sound fundament that can always be explained in plain wo