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  • Fluent in Spanish; learning English
  • 45, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • artist photographer cultural manager and international co...
  • Master Cultural Managment by Carlos III University Madrid...
  • From Valencia, Spain
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Discovering Argentina

ABOUT ME

Cada año me voy conociendo mas a mi mismo, y como una serpiente que deja su piel, al crecer,dejo mis experiencias y nacen nuevas.

PHILOSOPHY

Ithaca

As you set out for Ithaca
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon - don't be afraid of them:
you' ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
wild Poseidon - you won't encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope your road is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you enter harbours you're seeing for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind -
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to learn and go on learning from their scholars.

Keep Ithaca always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you're destined for.
But don't hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you're old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you've gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaca to make you rich.

Ithaca gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca won't have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you'll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.

K.Kavafis

Interests

fotografia
arte
cooperacion al desarrollo
musica
paisajes
ciclismo

  • perfumes

Music, Movies, and Books

Come,Reza,Ama
Tres Estaciones
Mi Nombre es Nadie
El Juego de Arcibel
Una Verdad Incomoda
The Grey Zone
Midnight Express
Nowhere
Delicatessen
The Outsiders
Los Fotografos National Geographic
Mimi Metalurgico
La Caida
The ice Harvest

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Mi primer viaje nunca lo olvidare, fue a Kosovo en el año 2000, tras un año de guerra en el 1999, estuve de voluntario con la Cruz Roja Española, en Cheste,con las familias albanokosovares, refugiadas en Valencia, y tras estar como voluntario, decidi organizar un intercambio cultural con la Universidad de Prishtina. Estuve tres meses, realizando una escultura por la Paz, junto a estudiantes de arte de España y Kosovo.
Llevamos donaciones de libros a la Biblioteca Nacional de Kosovo, y documente el patrimonio de las mezquitas e iglesias ortodoxas en la region de Istok.

Otros viajes,increibles, en Inglaterra, con una Princesa Nepali, viviendo dos meses en su casa, y viajando por Valencia.

Teach, Learn, Share

Cada persona que sea respetuosa y abierta, con inquietudes por mejorar el mundo.

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