Clara Pimstein
 Santiago, Chile Email: clarpims@hotmail.com MSN: clarpims
My Biography or Seeking for the Emotional Language.
I am a woman in a mature stage of the life. I can look backwards and understand. I was educated under two extreme forces that have been fighting, intertwining and intergrading in my inner through all my life. These were the science vs the humanism (rational vs emotional), I acquire both. Now I know what happened: I was the only responsible of the permissions I gave to the action of others to interfere and affect me in the emotional side. The result of this was a position of a hidden marginality, which I am trying to give up.
This hidden marginality gave place to many questions, one very important was: How,
• Being a professional (geologist), coming from an enlightened family where values such as culture, love, nobleness, justice, ‘equality’ and ‘respect’ constitute the daily basis;
• Being a person with sensibility and a broad spectra of interests, and
• Having an economic independence, I was able to be trapped in such a way and for so long time?
Trapped by the concentric circles of the society: the husband, the family, the friends, the companies, the country, the continent, and the world. I was able of unseal some but not all the traps. After twenty-seven years of marriage, one day I left a possessive husband, keep a loving and comprehensive son and began to live, knowing and pulling out what is in my inside. This inside that cannot be seen or measured with established parameters.
By the moment, I have made some discoveries related with invisible but tight nets where we are immerse. Nets of oppression and dominance. I continue looking for a balanced recognition of what women represent and this must be done in concordance with men.
My first and important discover, was the trap of the language. It consists that in the society the sensorial communication language is associated to the women and is not acceptable in the normal productive activities ruled by a long patriarchal dominance inheritance. To enter in the structure of the society you must use their rational code. However, because, previously as a woman you have developed a sensory code, you show a strength that represents a dominance danger, to be prevented of entrance.
Second discovery is that men ‘ignore’ all the women categories. They as a rule, only recognize to types of women: those that are rational (masculine-intellectual, associated to production) and those that are sensory (feminine-frivolous, non-associated to production), making to disappear in practice, a third intermediate category, that it is the sensory-rational and that also pertains to it.
Third discovery, the women within the society act in different ways: those, the majority, who accept the men structure of the society with all what it means, and that raise up their own children under the established premises and a minority who don’t accept it.
Fourth discovery, most of the men and most of the women are against changes! It is a very comfortable position! Dominium vs Status.
What I have written:
• Poetry in my childhood. Many prizes.
• Translation from English into Spanish of what I consider a literary jewel: “Found Treasures: Yiddish Women Writers” (Second Story Press, Toronto, 1994. Ed. F. Forman, E. Raicus, S. Silberstein Swartz y M. Wolfe). A compilation of stories written by Jewish women from Eastern Europe, past century until the fifties: hidden experiences, struggles and performances. To be published some day.
• Oneiric Images, a four hundred-page book of three-years correspondence, between two old friends, whom in their adolescence did not enough explore their mutual attraction. Today in their maturity and up to the light of their own life experiences, have again an approximation, this time written and full of energies. My virtual adventure friend, mysterious disappears as a comet. Names and places were changed, living only baste of an exquisite dialogue, plenty of fancy.
• In addition, I have started My Biography and structured an essay: “The Women: The Visible and the Invisible”.
Published
- Poem: Dream in The Innocence of Time (1998, p.79)
- In the scientific area, geology : 3 books, 15 published articles and 82 private reports.
Other activities
Digital High Resolution Photography. Since 2000.
- Photo: Alma in Images of the Mind (2003, www.picture.com/pics2/129/1153004.jpg)
- Photo: Sleeping beauty in Endless Journeys (2005, www.picture.com/pics2/web/1595517.jpg)
-"Orquideas“ Collective Exhibition "Visiones del Mundo” Mundofotográfico y Museo Histórico Nacional (Macro, May 2006)
- “Ramo de Flores” First Place “Fotocine Club de Chile” (June, 2005)
- “Reflejo en Rojo” Best Photo “Fotocine Club de Chile” (September 2005)
- “Mujeres Pescando” accepted “Salón de Quilpue, Chile” (October 2005)
- "Recien Casada" Second Place Fotocine Club de Chile (June, 2006)
- "Canto de Quasimodo" Collective Exhibition "Chile su Patrimonio y su Gente" Diario La Nación, Fotoamerica (October 2006)
-"Noche de Carnaval, Arlequines" Collective Exhibition La Chascona "Homenaje a Neruda" (November 2006)
-"La soledad de la Arena" Collective Exhibition "Homenaje a Neruda" Casa Museo La Chascona, Fotoamerica (November 2006)
-"A una Estatua de Proa, Sombra" Collective Exhibition "Homenaje a Neruda" Casa Museo La Chascona, Fotoamerica (November 2006
- "Cien Años" Collective Exhibition "Situaciones Urbanas" La Pipa, Fotoamerica (November, 2006)
- "Domingo Temprano" Collective Exhibition "Situaciones Urbanas" La Pipa, Fotoamerica (November, 2006)
- "Camelia" Collective Exhibition Parque Forestal, "Fotolibre Fotoamerica" (November 2006)
- "Estela\" Collective Exhibition Parque Forestal, \"Fotolibre Fotoamerica\" (November 2006)
- "Mirada Porteña\" Third Place \"Fotocine Club de Chile\" (November, 2006)
- "El Balcon" Collective Exhibition "Sewell, Patrimonio de la Humanidad" Museo Sewell (November 2006)
-"Museo" Collective Exhibition "Sewell, Patrimonio de la Humanidad" Museo Sewell (November 2006)
- "La Montaña" Collective Exhibition "Sewell, Patrimonio de la Humanidad" Museo Sewell (November 2006)
- "La Ventana" Fotocine Club de Chile participation, Second Clubs' FIAP, World Cup (September 2007)
- " " Fotocine Club de Chile participation, Second Clubs' FIAP, World Cup (September 2007)
-Third Place Award Begginers, Ampliacion Color, Fotocine Club de Chile (December 2006)
- "Atardecer en Maitencillo" First Place and Theme "Fotocine Club de Chile" (April, 2007)
- "Viña Concho y Toro, Lo Paralelo" Third Place "Fotocine Club de Chile" (May, 2007)
- "La Flor de la Pasion" First Place and Theme "Fotocine Club de Chile" (June, 2007)
- "Belle de Nuit" 99 Mejores Fotos de Chile, Dia de la Fotografia, Estacion Mapocho (August, 2007)
- "Une Cadence Sensuelle" Diaporama Exhibition, Dia de la Fotografia, Estacion Mapocho (August, 2007)
- "Joli" Fotocine Club de Chile participation, Second Clubs' FIAP, World Cup (September 2007)
- "Gaviotas" Fotocine Club de Chile participation, Second Clubs' FIAP, World Cup (September 2007)
- "La Suerte" Third Place "Fotocine Club de Chile" (November, 2007)
- "Cadencia en Rojo" Second Place and Theme "Fotocine Club de Chile" (July, 2007)
- "Lujuria" Second Place "Fotocine Club de Chile" (November 2007)
- "En Pos del Amo" Third Place "Fotocine Club de Chile" (November, 2007)
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"Ikh heng tvishn do un dortn - Di malke fun stires"
"Hanging between here and there, Queen of contradictions" (Blume Lempel)
cpimstein@gmail.com *** clarpims@hotmail.com
Interests: poetry; prose; women; soul; study the hidden marginality of women in the society; translation English-Spanish
Published writer: Yes
Freelance: Yes |
