{"id":751,"date":"2017-02-13T16:59:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T15:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/?p=751"},"modified":"2017-04-21T07:00:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T06:00:34","slug":"one-sentence-stories-and-so-finally-he-took-the-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/2017\/02\/one-sentence-stories-and-so-finally-he-took-the-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"<span class=\"small-text\">One sentence stories:<\/span><br \/>\u201e&#8230; and so finally, he took the fish.\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/160810_DS_IllTakeTheFish_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-777\" src=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/160810_DS_IllTakeTheFish_02.jpg\" alt=\"Atamayka Daily Drawings - He took the fish \/ Y por fin, tom\u00f3 el pescado \/ und so, hat er sich f\u00fcr den Fisch entschieden\" width=\"519\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/160810_DS_IllTakeTheFish_02.jpg 519w, http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/160810_DS_IllTakeTheFish_02-125x125.jpg 125w, http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/160810_DS_IllTakeTheFish_02-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a>My cousin will move from Turin-Italy to China at the beginning of 2017. It has gotten me thinking about the early stage in which you move to a new country.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>My home country is Venezuela, but i\u2018ve had to adapt to the U.S.A., Spain and Austria. You have to not only understand a new language, but you also have to learn how to interpret a whole new set of body language signs.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like when some cultures nod, in what we western people would understand a yes, to mean no.<\/p>\n<p>Our intimate moments, deep within our heads, translate into mimics. These gestures are conditioned by cultural and social learning. And they are also read according to our cultural and social backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>For example, how many interpretations of the face above would we find?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tiredness of living<\/li>\n<li>Sadness (maybe because my cousin is leaving Europe \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 )<\/li>\n<li>Dissapointment<\/li>\n<li>Trying to listen to what someone is saying in the background<\/li>\n<li>Making a decision<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I wonder what this face would suggest in Asia or Africa&#8230;<br \/>\nAre our cultures so different that we might interpret something totally different?<\/p>\n<p>In my case, I was looking at this when I was drawing him&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Paxos-Atamayka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-779\" src=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Paxos-Atamayka-585x437.jpg\" alt=\"Atamayka-Paxos-Greece\" width=\"585\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Paxos-Atamayka-585x437.jpg 585w, http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Paxos-Atamayka-125x93.jpg 125w, http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Paxos-Atamayka-250x187.jpg 250w, http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Paxos-Atamayka-768x574.jpg 768w, http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Paxos-Atamayka-624x466.jpg 624w, http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Paxos-Atamayka.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, this is my one sentence story:<br \/>\n<strong>\u201eand so, he took the fish\u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/160810_DS_IllTakeTheFish_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-778\" src=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/160810_DS_IllTakeTheFish_01.jpg\" alt=\"Atamayka Daily Drawings - He took the fish \/ Y por fin, tom\u00f3 el pescado \/ und so, hat er sich f\u00fcr den Fisch entschieden\" width=\"519\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/160810_DS_IllTakeTheFish_01.jpg 519w, http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/160810_DS_IllTakeTheFish_01-125x125.jpg 125w, http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/160810_DS_IllTakeTheFish_01-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>+ (Note: For inquiries, please contact me at <a href=\"mailto:art@atamayka.com\">art@atamayka.com<\/a>) +<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 1984px; left: 73px;\">Merken<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer; top: 1984px; left: 73px;\">Merken<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My cousin will move from Turin-Italy to China at the beginning of 2017. It has gotten me thinking about the early stage in which you move to a new country. My home country is Venezuela, but i\u2018ve had to adapt to the U.S.A., Spain and Austria. You have to not only understand a new language, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2,4,41,1,10,36,7,9,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative","category-doodle","category-drawing","category-iseefaces","category-life","category-living-with-art","category-pencil-drawing","category-portrait","category-story","category-stories-behind-the-faces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":846,"href":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drawingserendipities.com\/art-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}