Why I chose my program?

When I was a little girl I wanted to study Visual Arts, Philosophy, History, Music or Psychology, I liked all of those fields, eventually I choose Arts (specifically Visual Arts) because I thought that this career kind of encompasses all of the subjects I mentioned before.
All my life I needed Music attached right to my mind, I thought of it as the better company to my daily life, so when I was 17 I began to practice Flute, and when the time of the career decision came, Music was definitely one of the options, besides, I think it's very important in the construction of one's identity.
I choose Arts because of the reasons I mentioned before, and because I've been drawing and painting since I was very little (between 4 or 5 years old), so I thought at the moment of the career selection, that it was the right option.
When I was 17, I worked at a supermarket, so I had my savings to start financing my incoming college life (I had the help of my parents' money too), so I went to Buenos Aires, Argentina to study Visual Arts, I went to Universidad de Buenos Aires first, then I left it for a better one, to Universidad Nacional de las Artes. I spent 5 years on that country, until 2017 that I returned to Santiago, Chile.
I decided to continue my studies in Chile, because the economic crisis situation in Argentina became something very unsustainable and damaging to my finances and my physical and psychological integrity. So I began a process of career recognition between Universidad de Chile's Faculty of Arts and my academic history at Universidad Nacional de las Artes.
So now, in 2018 I began my studies in Plastic Arts here at the faculty, and it's been a good semester all around, I like the education I've been receiving and the friends I've been making. A good experience indeed.
I like Museum Curation as a field I want to explore more, so it's definitely my option as a work, besides, I want a full studio to work with my audiovisual projects. I want to work in Europe eventually so all of my plans for the future go there.

Autobiography

My name is Maina Herr, I was born in Santiago, Chile on 28 december 1992, so that means I'm 25 years old now. I'm the first daugther of my parents, I have a little brother too, his name is Martín (well, he's not too little, he's 18 already). My parents are 'kind of young', my mum is 49 and she's called Jimena and my dad is 53 and he's called Eduardo.
Right now I'm studying visual/plastic arts at Universidad de Chile and before that I studied the same career at Universidad Nacional de las Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I lived 5 years there, and in 2017 I returned back to Chile. I moved on to Argentina when I was 18 in 2011.
I used to draw a lot when I was a little girl, and I still love to do it. My favorite subjects in visual arts are illustration/drawing, printmaking, screenprinting, collage, digital art and painting. I'm vegan and I'm very strict about it, I don't eat meat since I was 10 years old, so I went vegetarian back then until 2011 where I turned to the vegan lifestyle.
I learned english by myself, and I'm very proud about it, 'cause it was kind of a lifegoal, I'm doing the same now with Russian language, learning through the internet with films, music, translating excercises, self monologues practicing the pronunciation and creating sentences, it's been really helpful before with english so now I'm doing the same with russian, anyway, I want to learn it with some help in an institute.
I like to read everything I can reach on to at the Internet, I'm kind of a knowledge seeker, my interests extend not only to Arts, but to Music, Philosophy, Aesthetics, Psychology, Psychiatry, Sociology, Anthropology, Science, Cinema, History, Video Games, and Technology.

Here are some of my web links where I upload selfies, my visual work, my music and my visual imagery:

http://www.instagram.com/mainaherr
http://soundcloud.com/voidwound
http://voidwound.tumblr.com
http://www.behance.com/mainaherr