We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Sebastián Quiroga a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Sebastián, thrilled to have you on the platform as I think our readers can really benefit from your insights and experiences. In particular, we’d love to hear about how you think about burnout, avoiding or overcoming burnout, etc.
As I see it, burnout is excessive self-wear when facing different daily situations, some of them in the workplace. In my particular case I was able to begin to reverse this situation, by understanding that my own resources, energetic, emotional, physical and mental, are all limited. Therefore I had to learn to manage these resources, with the aim of restoring my health and establishing a new, more balanced relationship with my productive environment. This management of one’s own resources has to do with self-valuation, self-esteem and self-awareness, and through said inner work, reaching the conviction that we deserve the best in life, such as full health and abundance for all. the levels.
Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
I love Art and Design. It is easy for me to dedicate myself to them.
A great mathematician once said that the difference between design and art was that design is the answer to a problem that can be identified, instead he defined art as the answer to a problem that could not be previously posed. Art and design have been an intrinsic part of my life. Since I was little I dedicated myself to drawing giant spaceships and different races of aliens. As I grew older, I began to learn about different artistic trends, thanks to the art teachers I had at school and in some painting and drawing courses I attended.
Parallel to my interests in the visual arts, I was filled with admiration to observe different types of printed matter (graphic design objects), whether books, magazines or illustrations.
So art and design were a fundamental part of my life at all times, although I did not give enough importance to this hobby.
In Argentina, my country, it is not well regarded for a person to dedicate their life to art. So once I finished school I enrolled in university, studying graphic design, which had a more direct relationship with the business world and the means of production as I understood them.
Once I graduated, it turned out I was an artist with the visual training of a graphic designer. Over time I understood that I was not the only one.
And when I finally decided to dedicate myself more strongly to artistic activity, I was surprised that more people liked my art than I thought, it gave me a lot of satisfaction.
Today my artistic exploration takes me to geometric abstraction, optical art and the study of the human figure. I am still learning. I still enjoy it like that kid who drew spaceships. As Sir Ken Robinson, the great scholar of education and vocations, would say, the visual arts are “my element.”
After much thought, I decided to take as a pseudonym the name I used as a teenager, when I was studying in high school: Oxono.
And it became my Trademark. My pseudonym takes a predominant role in each of my works: my pseudonym has visual weight and is part of my works.
So my personality as an artist has to do with the abstract, the experimental use of color and the use of my personal brand as the protagonist. I find it really fun!
Today I work in visual research, the creation of commissioned works and I see myself participating in the future with my art in the film industry.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
In searching for my own path I have found three fundamental qualities to take into account: The first, as the guitarist Santana said, know your “own colors” or as the Greeks said “know yourself.” We are not all the same. There is something that defines you, you must be aware of it. The future work you are going to invest time and effort in better be worth it and have to do with who you really are.
The second: make sure you work daily on your self-esteem, on your self-concept. Much of the energy you will use will be based on your self-love.
The third: persistence. No matter what others say, achieving your goal is valuable, and you are the one who can understand it best. Work on your discipline daily.
Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played in important role in your development?
If we talk about the impact that literature has had on my life, I must comment on two types of books. On the one hand, spiritualist and self-help literature. For example the book “A Course in Miracles”, which I reread daily.
On the other hand, another of my great passions has been science fiction literature. Ray Bradbury, Frank Herbert and Úrsula Leguin are my favorite authors.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oxono_artist/
Image Credits
Leandro Pacheco
