Hi everyone! I've been really busy with college lately, I'm really loving it so far but it leaves me with little time for personal stuff. I have also been taking a great class at The Art Department with Marshall Vandruff, thanks to a dA contest they did some time ago where I was lucky to be one of the third place winners. Marshall is a fantastic teacher and I would recommend taking his classes to everyone.

Some cool things have happened for me art-wise lately. I recently found out that my 'Ventura' piece will be in the next issue of Ballistic's Exposé books, which was surprising and awesome. I will also be in the CD gallery of next month's ImagineFX magazine, so I'm looking forward to that. Last month my art also appeared in a sci-fi/steampunk show at the WarmStreets Gallery in Virginia, in an exhibition to raise funds to support the homeless. And I was invited to participate at the Light Grey Art Lab in Minnesota, in an exhibition on environments they are making this August in collaboration with Mike Yamada and Victoria Ying. There will also be a book on that, but I will share more information once I have it later this year.

Anyway, I made myself a Behance account recently, so please come say hello if you have an account: [link]

Thanks for reading, cheers!

JC

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My FB: [link]
My site: [link]

In exactly one week I will be moving to the United States to attend the Savannah College of Art and Design (the Savannah campus). Moving out of my home country, leaving my family and friends here, is something that will probably take me a while to digest, but I will be doing it to pursue an artistic career, which will (hopefully) make up for it. And if for some reason I don't feel happy, I will just go back or try something else. But I do not think that will happen. Fortunately I know a couple of people who go there already. If any of you go there too, feel free to tell me, I'd love to meet you.

I don't normally write things about my personal life here but this a huge change for me. Thanks to those who have given me their interest and support during the time I've been on this site

-JC

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En exactamente una semana me voy a mudar a Estados Unidos para estudiar en la universidad Savannah College of Art and Design, en el campus de Savannah. Dejar mi país, mi familia y mis amigos es algo que probablemente me tome un tiempo digerir, pero lo voy a hacer para empezar una carrera artística, que espero que lo compense. Si por alguna razón no me siento feliz, simplemente me regresaré o intentaré otra cosa, pero espero que eso no pase. Por suerte conozco a algunas personas que ya estudian ahí; si alguno de ustedes también, díganmelo, me encantaría conocerlos.

Normalmente no escribo cosas personales aquí pero esto es un cambio muy importante para mí. Les agradezco mucho a todos los que me han apoyado en el tiempo que llevo en este sitio

-JC

The Heartsurge family is extremely proud to release their first themed exhibition "Exhibit D: Awakening". Yet again we decided to challenge ourselves to work along the theme of waking up, both in a real way and a surreal sense. These past months our artists worked hard to bring you 31 high quality works of art and music to wake you up. What you can expect is something that crosses the reality and delves deep into your sense of interpretation, both through your eyes and ears.

We decided to underline the new talent that arrived since our third exhibition in the shape of German photographer Benny Brand and chose him as the well deserved featured artist of Exhibit D: Awakening. Benny was one of the first new artists who joined after our well received Exhibit C. With his creative mind he submitted some amazing photography as well as proving himself to be a valuable asset to the collective.
Read the interview with him here! [link]

And last but certainly not least. We are extremely excited to bring you V3 of Heartsurge. Aside from making the exhibition itself, our web-oriented members worked hard on making this a true representation of what Heartsurge is about.

Now that we have told you everything we can tell you, sit back, breathe in and immerse yourself in the phenomenon of Awakening.

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This is the first time I've participated in a Heartsurge release, and in fact it is the first time I have contributed to an art collective. It's been a pleasure and I look forward to seeing what's next!