The Full Person

I was born in a family of artists; my mother and father danced for a living. When my sister and I were born, dad became a professor and choreographer while my mother continued to pursue her dancing career. My sister and I grew up in an environment filled with the love for arts.
At times we would accompany mother on her tours and live backstage, helping her and the other ballerinas finish up their looks before going on stage. Of course they knew what they were doing, but letting us add just another dab of blush or retying the bows on the sleeves was their way of including us in their world. On those moments we felt like artists ourselves.

And at other times we would be in father’s ballet team, learning how to dance, how to teach dance but above all how to create and inspire. Father delved deep into any story he was transposing into a ballet. He would dissect the ideas to extract the pure artistic essence and transform it into ballet. I was fascinated and loved that power of his creative mind that sparked interest in my own mind; I learned how to visualize feelings and express them with ballet movements.

Then, at home, mother made clothes for my sister and me. She inherited a sewing machine from her own mother. I saw my mom transforming squares of fabric into cute but practical dresses, or into a fancy skirts and bodices for my ballet recitals. At first it was a technical process, learning how to stitch things together, then it became an art of combining materials, colors and flows. This went further when mother was asked to be one of the models for the fashion house in our city. I don’t remember watching more than one show, but I vividly remember the steps of the creative process. I went to every meeting mother had with the designers. The studios had a large table in the center and walls covered with cabinets filled with utensils, accessories and fabrics.
I secretly wished I too, become a designer, but that dream did not materialize. Instead I followed a path that led me to another type of creativity: engineering. I am an engineer with a heart for teaching and art. I guess one cannot do it all, but doing one thing well and keeping others as hobbies can still help put a mark on this world.

For all my friends who are engineers, teachers and artists I am bringing things together for a bit of educated and practical fun. I love seriously diving into engineering problems, and I love sharing my knowledge and passion for everything that makes our lives better.