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Nada se pierde, todo se transforma | Julieta Arroquy | TEDxLagunaSetúbal


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to me I 88 standard mother ophelia is
he took his life at the age of 45
I was 13 an age when a girl
is becoming woman is
full of questions and for me that
He lived in a town like Colonel Suarez
where nobody is anonymous
everyone talks about the lives of others and
an indelible stamp on a label one
luck of stigma that crystallizes goes to
be the daughter of the crazy what she did not want
that nobody will feel pity or pity
for me so I put all my
energies in avoiding becoming a
teenager with problems did not want
have no excuse to justify a
socially inappropriate behavior
On the contrary, it could be a girl
normal
died on a Monday or Tuesday
we saw the wake and the iron and the
Wednesday I was sitting on the bench
of the school as if nothing
past
it’s not that I became sad
I simply felt the need to take
the reins of my life
at 14 and the only school girl
that he had all 10 in the newsletter and
first in endurance racing
physical education was excellent student
in English culture my grandmother sends
study English and championed first
escort to crown the end of the
high school
my companions elected me queen of
dance students a title to which they
You can access it if you did not work hard and
even for tonight
clearly my mother’s love has
marked my life but also relieved
something about the future
the worst that could happen to me as a child and
happened to me and also because it explains
somehow a personal mechanism of
survival that consists of
transform pain or sadness into
something positive
finished high school
it was time to think about the future of girl
I had wanted to be a veterinarian after
lawyer but it was my love for
writing what tipped the scales
so I studied journalism I left the
Good people town with the firm
conviction to convert a journalist
but not without first knowing that I had to
achieve economic independence for
that my family’s decisions do not
will mediate with my future
so I worked in an ice cream parlor and
baby sitter work in sanitary works
of the nation in liquidation I tried
unsuccessfully sell the magazine time in the
21 years I went to work in a bank
where I stayed nine years
simultaneously I did the whole career of
communication sciences and the
final but never deliver the
tesina so I got no achieve
leave the bank and I went to work in
a communication agency where
he earns much less but he was finally going to
be what I had always wanted
write to communicate to my 31 years that
something very curious happened is the fact that
makes me be here is talking
today with you although for that moment
I had already had two relationships
long couple with cohabitation included
the end since those links had
It has been my decision until
He met Lisandro is is the photo and
caring for your identity
we left a month and after the first
discussion left me up there
a broken heart story worthy of
go to oblivion but it did not happen was a
trampoline that shot me at all
speed to a new and more creative
stage of my life
I remember that the day I had been living
I used to buy a gift from lisandro
just as promoters do
fibertel with me every time I call
to cancel the service and offer
a cheaper promo
also that this one did not grab the promo
terminated the service and stayed with
the gift
when lisandro left my house and gives
for an impulse
we had to come up with an omen or with
the writing of a desire manifesto
for the future
I took a blog that I wrote in
English the new chapter of my life
the new chapter of my life and in the
next page
I started to draw compulsively
they had done that I could not go through
high because while feeling a sadness
a very exaggerated sadness because not
I could have that melancholy after
have left 30 days with a request but
the fact that I could not ignore
it was that it was the first time a boy
it left me so abruptly so fast
and without giving explanations
curiously that event was connected with
another duel my mother’s because the
familiarity that momentum
that need to transform was the
same as the 13 exorcise that
sadness through something positive of
something good
curiously through the drawings
I started making jokes with that to
laugh at that exaggerated compulsion of
that sadness that was very disproportionate
for the depth of such a link
small but at the same time the
joy was swinging because I was
doing something he did not do from the
secondary drawing what is certain is that the
most of us stop drawing
to finish high school or childhood
we do not abandon because we believe that it is
something that corresponds to childhood that
we do not do it well that the strokes do not
correspond to the reality that is a
game but mostly because we do not judge
to ourselves that we are
doing and we do not consider ourselves what
good enough
there is a phrase of le corbusier that says
I prefer to draw to speak because the
drawing leaves less room for lies
and some of that there is one can not escape
of those drawings and I started
doing something very simple my drawings do not
they were works of art or bright strokes
they were simple traces of objects that
there was in my house that recognized scissors
spoons knives coffee cups but
However, without knowing it, I was
doing something very personal and original a
kind of graphic humor that up that
moment nobody was doing what I did
so many times during 2007 that he held
the great part of my day I notice is
invent of situation in schedule of
lunch in the waiting room of the
dentist when I was in the collective
when he had the courage it started
show my friends and my relatives
people laughed with that logic of their own
that I had built these objects
that dialogue with each other with notaban
human emotions
there came a time that one of my bosses
in the communication agency he told me
that he had a friend is looking for a
graphic humorist for a new
women’s magazine point of throwing
I felt intimidated why I did not
I felt capable I did not even know that
yesterday a drawing
he insisted that a power arm
point I never did the power point
the impatient editor ended up sending
a motorbike to the communication agency and
I already sent all my originals to
three days they called me and told me that
I had become the magazine
the humorist of the magazine ohlalá a
moment of much surprise of a lot
Adrenaline the monthly magazine
it had been less than a year
started to draw and it will be a pretty
graphic pays
He had so much anguish and joy it
time the kinship that I found was
with cornstarch then I had to
communicate with her so that I
give some advice
get your mail I wrote in a
Spanish page did not even have the
mail of saca and she answered me with
a very simple and very wise message that
I still keep and that I always like
lie she told me you draw and draw
draw what you have to get you going to
arrive if you have to arrive and I
girls came resembled a logo or the
gnomes of the books that I most
they liked the logos of the books of
oiled boogie mafalda
pereyra was the editions logo of the
flower by some friends gets the
contact of daniel divinsky owner of the
editorial to write an email
we had a very intangible meeting and
right there he told me we have a book in
2010
I launched my first book or I did not fall in love
with prologue of liniers epilogue of tute
simultaneously they began to pass a
lots of good things
the marplatense band the super mice
He invited me to participate with my drawings
in the video of his last clip the brand
Pure offered me to make a collection of
bags and slippers
the diary profile half a blog where I
they paid for my drawings and my writings
by hello magazine he stopped posting
me to crown the violent farewell
the editor told me you drawings never
they liked in the art department
accustomed those not of life is not
you clung to this book of and in
me and I had an editor that also did not
it was until the 2011 fair where
presented for the second time the first non
I played there wizards there people to
ask me where the 60’s stop at
the second there was a little more of
movement
however the fetish that we all have
the authors we sat at the fair of
book in buenos aires is that the
row of readers who want to buy the
book was opposed with affection julieta and
I was always
0 next to me was gustavo sala
had ten readers waiting until
I discovered what is your trick your trick was
that he took between 5 and 7 minutes
before each book with a drawing like that
that for these ego issues
personal and that I will do the same
I had refused for a long time
to draw people because it seems to me already
that left me childish because of that
opted for the objects but in that
moment my barrier fell and I started to
sketch those first human figures in
the first pages of what I do not
I fell in love while I dedicated
many times
finished that fair I already had a
cartoon a character as I knew that
two characters were not going to come out
the same for these difficulties
limitations as a cartoonist opt ​​for
three colors white red and black made him
a haircut similar to mine because
I just had my hair cut off
I solved her silhouette with a little dress
red for nothing the house of the waist and
from the knee down a pair of boots
which avoided drawing on the feet
I called her ofelia in homage to my mother
and also because I was looking for the name
will move away from the current reality that
they were blunt name that was a
old name after 15 days of being
uploading the facebook
the daily journal disappeared daily
Free editorial profile already starts to
publish once a week to months
I’m publishing it in the magazine
women of Mexico and in less than a year
had reaped enough
of strips like to make a book in
2012
came out ofelia one later he followed
Affiliates
ofelia 3 ofelia 4 today is published in
portugal in spain soon in
Mexico and in Italy
I do not know very well what is the secret
behind ofelia but yes for my
own limitations as cartoonists or
I could not draw it in profile from
character is always looking at the
face looking at the eyes of the readers
because that’s where we end up
finding all where we connect where
we empathize in those little strokes in
those gestures
finally people manage to identify
I am very well paid for my homework
when someone comes up and tells me
thanks to ofelia the strips for
books managed to overcome a sadness a
I grieve anguish because there is no greater
satisfaction that that looking towards the
past
I thank lisandro a little bit for
have broken my heart because I
forced to do something with that sadness has
transformed creating something new that
the time is very old
a drawing I also thank you all
the people who helped me get there
up here and most of all I thank you
my mother for whom I was alive
would change any of these achievements
but unfortunately it has been his sad
decision the engine that drives me and I
They have encouraged me to keep looking
it’s true that we know each other
much more when things do not come out
how we plan and how we expect that as
we imagine them and how we want them
when we get frustrated is when everything
it comes into play even sometimes we are not
able to see when that does not happen
we wanted it to happen they are passing a
lots of other things so they do not
we see our passage through the earth is very
short
so you have to learn fast but
the next time they are told no
things do not go as planned and
as they expected and
boston already go they may be they are
making a gift giving him the
opportunity to do something new with that
he is not the subtle way that the
life to tell us that it is in the direction
over another side
thank you very much
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