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I just submitted the proposal. Yesterday I finally launched my website. That same day I added the last piece of the series to the proposal, and today, after reading the document about a thousand times, I pressed the 'send' button. And now, with nothing left to do but wait, I can only stop and reflect that, although I am incredibly happy to have finished on time and managed to apply, the open call was never the most important part. The most important part was becoming someone

According to the countdown on my phone’s home screen, I have 19 days left to submit my proposal to the open call. And yesterday, while applying what might be the final glaze on the final painting of the series (at least for now), I thought: maybe I’ll make it. I didn’t think it with excitement. I thought it the same way a glaze is applied: slowly, carefully, without fully knowing what will remain once it dries. And that brings me to what I want to share today: the importance

In February I came across an open call for visual artists who had never had a solo exhibition. At that point I only had one artwork that I felt I had made with real intention, careful attention to every detail, from the type of canvas and its preparation, to the paints, to the originality of the reference. But the truth is, one piece alone cannot stand on its own, and it’s not enough to apply to a call like this, much less in a country as full of talent as Costa Rica. For a f