Never So Simple

Nothing is never as simple. The ideas of complexity and ambiguity are interesting to me. I don't like clear images because they present a solved problem. Hence I am not curious anymore. There should alway be something attainable in things and people, something that can never be yours, subject to the infinite possibilities of our imagination. Like an elusive element that we can almost grasp, but escapes through our fingers like water, at the last second. Mysteries are in the essence of passion.

My Little Martian

This is my Little Martian, as some of my friends have called him. This was done back in my years in Lima, with the help of a friend artist Alonso Costa. You will see this character moving along different portals in the video below. He is attracted to the light and the light allways seem to call him. He leaves his ball behind to walk through that empty door, open handed, amazed by what he is seeing on the other side... but what is he seeing may I wonder? Is he seeing love? Is it a new unamigined path to another dimension? Does he sees himself reflected as something new and exiting? Is it just a powerful tungsten light? What has he reached and why is he leaving the ball behind? What's in the other end of the room? What can you imagine is waiting for him, and for you?

Animation Fantasy

This video used the "Vuelo del Querubin" picture as an inspiration, as well as other motifs I have in a painting I will include in the next post. It just deals with the idea of discovery of one self's place and mission in the world. Everything is original but the music, which comes from a Chilean theatre group called La Troppa.

Fantasy 2

This is another organic illustration. It started with the boy and a ball. Then came a wall, and behind that, chaos unravelled. It was supposed to be half of its size. If you notice, in the middle, there is a line that seems like a folding line. The picture was in the middle of a book. This is my sketchbook, and I did the drawing during my T rides (public transportation). There is a recurrence in the buildings subject. I'm going to post some more pictures that have similar drawings of bending and chaotic buildings. Those are where the idea came from. I don't know what all this means. I would appreciate help with the explanations. It has so many things in it I could start talking about. What do you think?

Feto de Angel

This little guy its like a fetus of angel, with very long hair. The drawing was previous to the "Vuelo del Querubin". You can see there the similarities between both characters. In fact, this I think, is the character below, before he started flying with his butterfly wings, throwing bubble cells around the place. As you can see, I like to play with the ideas of childhood, innocense, fantasy and magic. I see him floating around, at sleep, in total calmness, dreaming, in his own world. Jessi, could you write a poem for him?

Jessica wrote:

El cuerpecito caia en picada.
Siendo atraído por la gravedad.
El cabello se iba desenredando,
Producto de la insólita velocidad.
A su mente la envolvía
Una mezcla de suenios, princesas,
Gnomos, unicornios y demonios,
En colores amarillos y palidos turquesas.
Quería despertar y salir del sopor,
Luchar contra la ráfaga de torpezas cometidas.
Arrancarse un pellejo de dolores incrustados,
Sanar, por fin, un pasado cubierto de heridas.
Las gotas de sudor empapaban su frente,
Le anunciaron que lo peor habia pasado ya.
Abrio los ojos de un solo golpe,
Y vio que cruzaba el umbral que unen al aquí y el alla.

El Vuelo del Querubin

I don't remember how this picture started. Probably I began with the little angel in the middle (El Querubin) which is throwing some bubble cells towards the snail. Then from the snail came the wire towards that kind of japanese, SuperMario bumblebee that is recieving the little clown on the bycicle. You can barely see it. That is a mistake of composition and contrast, which probably comes from the fact that the image was not pre-planned at all, but instead, grew organically. That sort of thing happens all the time. I just like the picture to talk to me, and tell me what she wants next. Usually it plays nicely. The ideas come as this flow of conciousness. The buildings on the background come probably from me being impressed by the locations of the Lord of the Ring movies, and by the fact that my mother is an architect, interior designer and construction enterprenuer. Both of my parents work in the construction business. It was all done with dry ink pen. Later on I tried to pull an animation on 3D done with Maya on this characters. Check it out here.