The Potato

Today I should talk about my favorite food, but I think I actually don't have one, so instead I will talk about the potato that in my opinion is one of the most versatile and delicious food. Potatoes are literally grown on earth, it's most like a root than a vegetable, so from one many new ones are grown, so this makes it cheap and easy to buy. There's a lot of shapes that you can eat a potato, starting by fries and chips, that for me must be a human heritage and you can mix with any dressing you like (I like to mix chips whit chocolate ice cream and fries with mustard). Also if you boil the potato, you can do a papasmayo salad or mashed potatoes, and with this last one you can do pastel de papa and milcao. And if you want a middle point between fries and boil potatoes, you can bake them, so you have the crunchy outside the potato and the creamy inside it. This one last shape is my emergency lunch or dinner cause is easy to do and quick. I think that potato is a important part of my diet, and like a vegan person I must say that is my salvation when I am hungry in the street, so I can find this in every place I go so easier that others vegan things. I consider the potato a healthy food but it can also be unhealthy depending on the sides.

Disenchantment from Matt Groening

 Disenchantment is an animated series created by Matt Groening (The Simpsons and Futurama's creator) in 2018, it tell us about a princess, an elf and a demon who became friends and live so many adventures. It's an adult program so you mustn't watch this with kids, and although we can see the characters go to drunk and drug in mostly episodes, it tell us a complicated and interesting history about a magic kingdom called Dreamland, showing us many aspects of this, like politician and social conflicts, inside and outside the kingdom, familiar problems and treason. It's situated in the middle age, but mix some elements of other periods, like technology in some places and ruines in another. I love it cause I think that it tell us too many about love, in a romantic way but also in the friendship and family. It has 4 seasons and I recommend to see in a lazy weekend with huge quantities of weed and a beer.

Why did i choose my major?

 Since 2020 i study in the visual arts programme of Universidad de Chile, but years ago i was already interested in art, especially in the body art and everything it means. Since i was a little girl i looked at people with tattoos, piercings and things like these and i loved the way that they looked and they showed presence. Then, when i was like 10 years i did my first piercing on myself and since that moment i started to practice in other people and become interested about tattoo world too. In 2016 when i was in the secundary school, i bought my first tattoo machine but also discovered other forms of art and i started to learn about the chilean art schools, and i decided that the programme of this university was the best complement to all the ideas that come to me since that period. Nowadays, i'm in 3rd years and i have been able to mix the academic world with the tattoos and body art and it makes me so happy.

Who I Am?

Hi, my name is Loretto Vargas, i'm 21 right now and i'm from Santiago de Chile. I was born in a town on the outskirts of Santiago called Talagante and i lived in a smaller town next to it called Isla de Maipo until 2022, there i lived with my mom, dad and my older brother. I studied there until i finished the high school and then i got into Universidad de Chile to the visual arts programme. I moved to Santiago Centro in 2022 to be closer to the university campus. Here i have learnt so many new things about the art and about me and i started the creation of an artistic project dedicated to the party clothes and accesories confection that mix the techniques and disciplines that i studied the past years, this are the paint, print and goldsmith. Also, i’m a tattoo artist practicioner since a few years ago, i do blackwork and puntillism.