1. WHO AM I?

    Hi! My name is Evelyn González. I was born on a summer day: on January 13, 1991, at Hospital Salvador in Providencia (Capricorn with the moon in Sagittarius🌞♑🌙♐).I grew up in Las Condes. My family is middle-class. I lived with my grandmother, grandfather, my aunt Pilo, my mother, and my older sister. My aunt Pilo is the one who taught me the art, the music, the movies, the respect, and love💘. She had Down syndrome and died in 2019 at the age of 42. It was a shock for me, I still miss her.

    After leaving school, I studied Art History for two years, I realized that it needs something much more than theory, something more practical, related to the workshop, where the arts come together with applied sciences, I never liked the academic separation of scientific or humanistic that schools teach. Interdisciplinary learning is necessary. 

    Finally, I studied conservation and restoration of art at Escuela de Artes Aplicadas in Santiago,  and I immediately fell in love. Having lectures about Pre-Columbian Art History and Applied Sciences (chemistry restoration) it's what I was looking for, to see heritage objects with a more scientific eye.

 

    I did my professional internship at the Conservation and Restoration Laboratory of the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile, between April and September 2017. I specialized in restoring the heritage of paper materiality, for example: original manuscripts, books, maps, letters, etc.📖💌

    Following my course, I traveled in 2018 to Florence (Italy), where I studied, for a month, conservation and restoration of parchment with the restorer Simonetta Rosatelli, who received me in her private workshop: Atelier Deltos, Laboratorio di Conservazione e Restauro Opere d'Arte su Carta. You will find some pictures below. 

    When I turned 30, I had a mid-life crisis (hahahaha). In Chile, I could not find a job and my economy is not very good. My dream as a child was to study archeology, and with this crisis I said to myself: "why not?” I passed the test, and now I am studying anthropology-archeology at the University of Chile, I am very happy. And my next steps are to study a master's degree at La Sapienza, University of Rome. I am studying Italian, but English is very important, but I think it will never be my strong, I will always speak like Sofia Vergara 💅.

 

Bye! Ciao! ¡Adiós!

Me as a child with my aunt Pilo, in the 90's 💅. 

Me restoring a 1940s advertising poster, at the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile , 2017.

Restoration of parchment, you can see the before and after in the first picture. Florence, 2018.

Eating a focaccia and drinking beer in the Uffizi Gallery. In the back, you can see the Palazzo Vecchio.