Cristobal Mella´s blog

 When I came out from high school I was thinking in my future in university, I was looking any art mayor, for that I was aware that I had to live away from my home, my home in Coyhaique, a little city where the connection whit nature was strong and nearly, where when I woke up I looked big tree forest in the mountains that surround the city, I think now that at that time I wasn't fully aware of the importance of my connection whit those landscapes, them always be there, now I'm writing this blog while I'm traveling in metro, a completely different view, Santiago was the city I was thinking to study, I choose to live here first because the art mayor I choose was plastic arts, then because I was thinking that if I had to made a change in my lifestyle I would have to do it bigger, a different landscape and a city with a fast ritm, I think that this is a thinking that many young people for little cities, the big cities like Santiago attract too much when you grow up in a city l...

 Since I was a little boy my grandma was in charge of the everyday's meal for my family, when I came back from the school I had the ability to recognize the meal that my grandma had made just smelling from the yard, I was so happy when I was in the yard and I knew that my grandma had done spaghetti with bolognese sauce, it was like one or 2 days per week, but I also was happy because I knew that my grandma cooked a big pot, and that means that at the dinner I would be able to eat more of that delicious, tasty and wonderful meal, because of that my favorite meal is my grandma's spaghetti with bolognese sauce. At the age of sixteen I become vegetarian and at that time my grandma changed the recipe, first she put soy meat in water with soy sauce for at least fifteen minutes, then she cut some onions and five garlic branches, she put that into a pan in low heat, she frie that a few then incorporate it into the pan the soy meat with just a few of the water in which it was soaking, t...

 In this post I want to talk to you about something that is so important for me, this is the graffiti, I write graffiti since I was twelve years old, I grew up in Coyhaique, where the graffiti scene was incipient, at the age of twelve I traveled with my father to Santiago, here the graffiti was so different, the graffiti scene in Santiago at that time was so active, there were so many different styles, the writers had the streets for themselves in any hour, I remember that on this trip I saw for first time someone tagging in the streets in the daylight, whit all the people around, without fear or shame, that unknown person was a example for me, when I come back to Coyhaique I started to write, first on paper, I was practicing all days, at the age of fifteen I paint my first big letters in the street, since then I couldn't stop, I can't remember how many pieces I had done in the region of Aysén, Los Lagos, los Ríos and in Santiago, I think about a hundred different pieces betwee...