Legacy

I remember in college that a sculpture teacher told us not to aim for transcendence or success and I never forgot that he said that an artist is a goldsmith, and for several years stuck in my head and I wanted to write about it but I didn’t know how, maybe I needed to create more art, grow older or have enough experience to understand life and the art craft.

Since I was a little boy I always had the feeling that I had to be someone important, and my parents were always strict with us to be number 1 in everything we did. Later in life as a young adult, I always felt the urge to be rich and famous and it was a feeling that I had for almost a decade, but I didn’t do enough to make it happen. At that time I tried to be an entrepreneur and I was surrounded by wealthy people which made me want it more: to have a normal life, stability, things, status. I struggled a lot to fit in that life, I didn’t fit in that life, that is why I think so many people left my life. I didn’t understand back then and I used to complain about my luck, my life and the bad decisions that I made with the people that was not good for my life. 

I always tried to be better, I always worked harder and never stopped trying to be better but I wasn’t doing it for myself, but for an idea of a life or for what it was supposed to be expected of me. I didn’t enjoy those experiences as much as I should have to, I was always complaining. I had to go through my journey to understand it, even when I lived the most difficult experiences. Until later in life I learned that we all have a path in life, a destiny, and that is not a specific moment in time but a series of experiences that make you and build who you are, and many people don’t realize how valuable those experiences are, I didn’t.

There is a missing link here right? between my paragraphs and the story I’m telling, isn’t it? Well, that is because there is a simple answer: you live and enjoy life while you are trying to find out who you are, from the life that you were trying to build.

When I started this project I decided not to do it for money or fame, but for my passion for art and for trying to recover my first love since I was a child. But it was not about plastic arts, it was about who I am and what I wanted for my life and my future. Until now I understand that my journey is different and that I cannot change it because that is changing who I am. If art is your passion, whether is music, film, acting, painting or any other discipline, hold on to it, don’t let go like your life depends on it, because it does. Legacy will come if it’s meant for you, stop worrying about it and start working for it.

Invest in yourself and what you love, without expecting a payoff.