contact:
yama@adinet.com.uy
webpage:
www.oocities.org/yamaplos
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Tools and materials, Science, Arts
A quick list of skills would include welding, construction, electricity installation,
carpentry and woodworking, fiberglass construction and repair, ferrocement,
motor maintenance and repair, vehicle driving (cars, motorboats, sailboats),
boat design and construction, cooking, many diverse industrial processes, especially
in food technology, photo lab processing, sewing, etc.
I have no desire to dedicate myself full time to any of these, but they do always
come in handy for small repairs and special projects.
Science
A long time astronomy hobbyist, I’ve developed some interest in many
other sciences, having at times taught and done research in several, most
especially Organic Chemistry, which left me with skills in laboratory analysis
procedures.
I am also knowledgeable in Biology, Geology, Ecology (having taught them at some moment), and
basic veterinary skills and animal husbandry (been a sheep farmer)
Arts
Being the son of an internationally known artist, Yolanda Rivas de Ploskonka, since very
young I was able to experiment with all sorts of media and artistic expression.
My interest for technology has enabled me to develop skills not only in the artistic media
itself, but in associated processes. Thus at least once I was able to make a tapestry with
wool from sheep I had raised myself, shorn, dyed (with natural dyes), made my own yarn and weave.
Experience in
- Ceramics
Wood-burning kilns, enamel manufacture, glassing processes, "engobe" (non-glass finishing, used
by many primitive cultures), molding, plaster mold manufacture, non-destructive rubber mold manufacture (for very delicate or valuable originals)
- Tapestry
All wool yarn preparation processes, natural dyes, loom construction
- Iron Sculpture
Welding, cutting, forging metal
- Photography
dark-room processes, toning, pin-hole cameras, special effects, digital photography, computer image editing and effects
- Graphic Arts
typeset printing, offset, silk-screen, computer-generated images
- other
batik, plaster sculpture, beadwork, banner and quilt-sewing
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