The Perfect song (To get lost)

I believe is very difficult to choose one song, but for me the perfect song is Aerials from System of a down, becouse I remember the time when the record come out, I was living near to a lot of friends who where with me in freestyle bicicles, so we used to get together and listed music like SOAD, RATM, Deftones and that kind of agrometal bands, and after share that moment we used to get out with ours bike and ride all day a cross the city.

Sometimes we met parts of the city only with our bikes. I remember one day with one of thouse friends went jumping stairs and doing tricks down the Alameda street to far, and near to Panamericana from inside we went lost, and I remember lose myself riding around, so when I realized I didin`t know where we were. I was listed that song and that record, but that song is the last of the record, so when we get lost I was listened Aerial, that part when it says: "swimming through the void we hear the words, we lose ourselves but we find it all.... " made me very much sense, being lost with my friend and riding our bike really opened my ears and my head to the meaning of the lyrics so we accepted to being lost and we peform very good tricks. doing this I really felt in home, doing the thing i really like as long as i want, I felt free and that song helped me to felt that way.

A day I will always remember

I believe one day I will always going to remember was recently, about two weeks ago, when with a group of my dearest friends put up a soccer match in Peñaflor in a very rainy day, the mayorie of them lived in there so they knew of places where they had roofed courts. In that group had friends ho lived far away, many in the south near to Chiloé, so it was very difficult to get everyone together, must of them travel for see us and share the weekend, I think about 6 years since we get together, so really it was an special event.

We made a barbacue next to the court and put music, as it was the last hour of the day in that court we play for about two hours, I like playing goalkeeper very much so playing with the friends that I never see for all day, really felt great!. Playing soccer for me is a chance not only for sport, also becouse I'm goalkeeper so it is an energy challenge, I enjoy very much this game and if I play with all my dearest friends is much better!.

An artist I admire

One artist that I admire is Gordon Matta-Clark He was the son of Anne Clark an American artist and Roberto Matta a Chilean surrealist painter of Basque, French and spanish descent. He also was the godson of Marcel Duchamp's wife. He studied Architecture at Cornell University. He also studied literature in 1971. In that time he worked on what he refered to as "Anarquitecture".

 He was a contemporary sculptor, because he incursionate in space, real livin space, that is because he cut the walls of an abandoned houses, and then the bathroom and all the rooms in the same house, so he was created an abstract way to perceive that space and rooms, breaking the perspective and making a new way to feel the space and reality. That kind of work really inspire me to think without limits how the sculpture today may speak in every day places. Matta-Clark used a lot of media to document his work, including film, video and photography, he demostrates that the theory of entropy applies to lenguage as well as to the physical world, and that lenguage is not a neutral tool for an artist.

A country I would like to visit.

actually.... I also want to visit india, but none of my friend had visit that country.

That place interest me because there still live sadhus, the ancient renouncers, they leave every material thing and property, for have a life dedicated to meditatión. They interest me also because they do not cut their hair and bears, so from them heads hang longs dreadlocks, with ashes and pigments they cover theirs bodies and face with red and yellow, I know these things because one friend told me about them and their phylosophy, and that captured me.

I will like to go to india also to see the ancient temples lost in the jungles, see the achitecture made of carved stone and see the symbols and gods that  they have in theirs culture.

one thing that really interest me is that there still live blacksmith people, who work in the floor with their anvils and their tools on a floor level, they work with their knee down every day, they also work especially with bronze making beatifull handcraft, like bracelets. i know that is a hard reality, they are extremely poor and they depend only from the turist, but i think that they trade use designs very uniques and ancient.



For these journey i want to go with my girlfriend, i think that journey will be very fun to share with her, and of course romantic, watching the sunset from a temple and eating some curry...jajaj. Also share the sculptures that they carved and put op in every wall of the temples.

Autobiography

My name is Leonardo Farías and I was born back in 1984, my mother was a psyquiatric student in University of Chile and she used to live in Talagante, for that she has to travel a lot, my father used to studied tecnic drawing, he teach me to draw people that we saw in tv very quick. After I graduated from school I decide to studied psichology in the Central University with the help of my parents, in the second year i started to learn sculpure in the Villaseca Workshop with Cristián Arrué, an artist who make jowelry and sculpture mixing stones with iron, I studied like 3 years with him, until I graduated from psichology and changed to arts, In 2010 I decide to work making sculptures for my life, and hopefully in the future mix this two things. Today I work making scenography for theatre. sometimes doing pieces with blacksmithing tecniques for the construction of braziers, ancient objects that today are lost in time.