My New Impulsive Chapter

It’s time now. It’s time now to create and build my own project. It’s time now to begin my new impulsive chapter in telling and producing my own stories. It’s time now for Impulsiva Stories to be born and shared with the world. After eleven years of an impressive career as a journalist – and a short new path as an artist – it’s time to create my own website and online space where I have complete control of the stories I tell.

Over the past two years I’ve spent interviewing some of the world’s best artists. I’ve spent a lot of time speaking, listening to, and getting to know artists from all walks of life and quite distinct disciplines.

I’ve created complex multimedia projects and tell stories that reach many corners of the world including the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.

I’ve metaphorically “traveled” extensively through Latin America when interviewing artists while constantly writing, filming, and recording their stories. I’ve learned about a wide variety of countries including Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Argentina, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, and many more.

I’ve kept going on and on with my great obsession of learning as much as I can about very different cultures from around the world.

My stories have given me some of the greatest and most painful moments of my life. They’ve taught me that I really enjoy connecting deeply with my interviewees and then, sharing their experiences with an audience that’s also interested in continuing that natural human connection.

I’ve understood that we’re all hungry for this deeper connection on a human level and it’s always been reflected on the audiences’ interactions with my stories on social media.

I’ve understood that what makes my stories great are its people. They are the ones who make the narratives so worthwhile because of how much they open themselves with me and how they trust me profoundly.

They allow me not only to admire their creations, but also understand better who they are as individuals and what motivates them to create. What sparks the love and passion to create masterpieces that transcend.

They’re the greatest people of all times who gift me their time, which is one of the most valuable things that we get to experience in life. They also guide me through their processes to create marvelous works of art that generate an intense connection with the audience.

It’s so intense, that at times it saves other people’s lives or even their own because the arts have the impressive power of saving someone’s being.

Within all these reflections and understandings that I’ve gathered from my eleven-year career path and the past two intensive years, I’ve also come to the realization that it’s now my time to shine on my own.

It’s my time to make the great leap and impulsive move to create my own project because I’m tired of giving away my work to people who don’t care about it.

I’m tired of giving away my stories to people who don’t understand what I’m doing and who could care less about the impact my stories have, even if I’m interviewing amazing and extraordinary artists who’ve shaped and shifted culture globally.

I’m tired of being in toxic environments where the ego is way much more important than the stories themselves. Where bringing down others matters more than the actual stories and than creating a space where collaboration should be at the top of the priorities.

I’m quite exhausted and tired of constantly dealing with this. And I’m also tired of not being listened to or feeling invisible when I know I have groundbreaking stories in my hands.

I simply want to share the extraordinary in-depth multimedia storytelling that characterizes me. I want my audience to get just as excited as I do whenever I interview artists.

I want them to really feel what these artists feel whenever they speak with me. I want them to have the immersive digital experience through my stories. I want that feeling to be really alive in them.

I want them to know that with this project, they’ll be able to “travel” throughout all of these countries and cultures I constantly write about, film, record, and photograph. I want them to feel as if they’re present in the moment with the artists I speak to. 

And the only way this will be achieved is through my intense impulses. Because whenever I make an impulsive move in my career, things always end up turning out amazing. My impulses always take me on new adventures and they always bring out the best in me. Even if I’m in the midst of an overwhelming crisis.

It means that I’ll always take risks willingly, even if I don’t know what the results – or consequences – of my acts will be.

But I genuinely think it’s a result of following my bliss and allowing myself to go with the flow while keeping my curiosity extremely alive. I simply want to tell stories. That’s all I want in life. I simply want people to enjoy what I produce while getting to know an artist to the bone. 

Maybe this is the start of something bigger than myself. Maybe it’s the beginning of something I should’ve done a long time ago, but back then I didn’t have all the experience I now have. Back then I didn’t realize that artists and their stories directly impact my emotional and physical wellbeing.

I’ve always known my jobs have never been just jobs, but I didn’t comprehend the extent of its impact on me as a person. Throughout the years, I’ve also been able to polish my abilities to engage with artists and seek new angles that bring different stories to the table. Not more noise to the background.

Maybe this is the beginning of a new storytelling journey where journalism meets art. Or art meets journalism. Or, maybe – just maybe – my journalism becomes art. It crosses that thin line in which my stories become way more poetic and narrative. Maybe it’s a sign to explore and experiment with my art of journalism.

I really don’t know. I just have to figure it out along the way and experiment with what I’m doing. Maybe I just need to set myself free and remove all of the barriers and limitations I’ve been encountering over the past years. Maybe it’s time to stop swimming against the current and for once, go with the flow and enjoy the calm.

Maybe it’s time to continue with my essence of understanding how arts and culture are a response to a nation’s social, political, and economic systems rather than being merely aesthetic disciplines, but on a whole new level.

I do know for certain that it’s time to trust that inner gut feeling and calling. It’s time to trust my impulses and tell extraordinary stories on my own with no one telling me what to do. It’s time to leave behind all the toxicity and negativity in order to start my new chapter with Impulsiva Stories.

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