Raquel Van Gelderen is a painter from Tucumán. Two weeks ago we went with Leti, Flor and Lauri to see her exhibition in “Casa de la Cultura”, but I’ve already seen one with ValeBe in “Timoteo Navarro”. The advantage of the second visit was that we had the opportunity to talk with her.I think that the most important idea she expressed was about nature. Nowadays we are in the boom of an ecology tendency. We are worried about environmental problems: pollution, contamination, destruction, deforestation,… We have an example at school: the garbage treatment project.
Yeah… Everyone cares about not throwing papers to the floor, but no one cares about admiring nature.
Protect. Help. Danger. Pollution. Rubbish. Devastation. Clean. Save. Help. Clean. Rubbish. Those are daily expressions. How about: Enjoy!
People are so worried about preserving the environment that they forget to see nature. Cleaning is as important as appreciating. Nature is beautiful, spectacular, gorgeous!
She made me realize this and I totally agree with her.
Another impressive thing from Raquel is that she has a positive view of life. Leti told us that she was discovered to have cancer. When she first found out she was gloomy, and that melancholy was showed in her paintings: she used dark colours.
But she has changed now. Her mind has made a click. Unfortunately, she still has cancer, but her view has changed to positive. Instead of paying attention to the negative aspects of life she sees the happy ones. Her draws are now full of colour and positive energy.
She is an exemplar. I think that we should always see the positive side of thing; the vessel middle filled than middle empty (“ver el vaso medio lleno antes que medio vacío”).
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One day, a shoe company sent 2 businessmen to make a review of the market situation for there production in Africa.
One of them said in his report that their industry had no future in Africa because no one used shoes.
But the other businessman said that Africa was the best place to put their factory because no one had shoes.
If you’re positive you will be happy. Enjoy life!
SMILE
=)
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You know... sometimes I have some strange feelings.... weird. Difficult to explain. I don't know why, but I thought you were going to post sth from this woman about the concept of nature that stuck on you! I really don't know why or how... but when I read in Charlie's blog you had a new entry, I came here to see if it was about what I thought...
And here it is!!
Well... Raquel is not the art I really like... =)
[I'm w8ing 4 u on my blog eh?]
Mi tía Raquel fue excepcional. Encontré hace unos días una carta en la que me decía:
"recibe mi cariño a traves del tiempo y el espacio. El afecto y el efecto de el por las palabras son mágicos."
Su concepto de la vida fue así. Positiva, talentosa, afectuosa.
Respecto de los colores, un mes antes de fallecer se vistió de fucsia para recibir un premio, llena de color, aunque ya deteriorada por la enfermedad.
Gracias por el post, y por incluir sus cuadros.
Silvia Komaid van Gelderen
Buenos Aires Argentina
Mi tía Raquel fue excepcional. Encontré hace unos días una carta en la que me decía:
"recibe mi cariño a traves del tiempo y el espacio. El afecto y el efecto de el por las palabras son mágicos."
Su concepto de la vida fue así. Positiva, talentosa, afectuosa.
Respecto de los colores, un mes antes de fallecer se vistió de fucsia para recibir un premio, llena de color, aunque ya deteriorada por la enfermedad.
Gracias por el post, y por incluir sus cuadros.
Silvia Komaid van Gelderen
Buenos Aires Argentina
Hola!! Mi hijo tiene q hacer un informe sobre Raquel, para plástica, te agradecería si me pudieras mandar información para incluir en su biografía, te dejo mi mail prigsilva32@gmail.com
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