The spell of Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery was born in 1969 in France; she is a philosophy teacher and author of three novels. Her book “The elegance of the hedgehog” had a good reception and much success (the book even had a movie), in fact I knew her by this book.

How I knew her?

In my 17s I used to go to the library after school and spent my time reading books (I didn’t have many friends). One day I picked this book and when I began to read it, I couldn’t stop. Because the main characters were so deep and sensible, they made me feel a bit nostalgic and *unknown affection* And her cute style kept me stuck on the book. Sometimes I used to think that I lived the life of the characters and when something bad happened to my favorite character I wanted to get on the book to comfort her. The book has three points of view, one for each main character, and you can get attached by the situation that involved the character or with their life philosophies.

YouTube for my emotional stress

I’m in a hard relationship with my career. In my current state I prefer to distract myself from the academic arts and for that my best partner is YouTube. YouTube is an application and website for audiovisual content where you can watch and upload your videos. With YouTube I can watch the content from my favorite artists, even if they are not academic artist. Now I’m in a dilemma with the “academic art” like oil painting, well my problem is with the painting and the academia. So before said I prefer the “street art” also known as “urban art”, the art that the academia hates. On YouTube I can watch and listen some artist like Drefquila, Rosalía or Ms nina without thinking if they are doing some “existential art or a music paradigm”, feel part of what moves the world and dance with my heart. YouTube serves me during the time I don´t want to think about studying and when I want to discover new artists. The negative thing could be that I spend too much time in this app. But with YouTube I feel like can continue with myself.

My favorite photo ♡

Me and my family lived in the south, the city of concepción, in the town of Peñuelas. When I was a little girl I used to love "run and follow the rainbows" and playing with my friends.  I found a dog near my house whose name was Toby and I kept him, later we found a cat whose name was Cucho, I searched him for a family in all the nearly houses, but no one could have him so I went to my house carrying Cucho crying and my parents let me stay with him.
I used to love that place, specially for the memories. I liked to dress me up like a "huasa" or "huasario" (I used to make words)
This photo is special for me, because it reminds me of all these things. It was funny because the photographer hadn't a girl's huasa dress", only "boy's huaso suit" and my mommy got angry, but I love this picture for that.
I felt like I was breaking all stereotypes, because I guess the clothing has not gender. And I can use whatever I want.