Ok, so my new Moleskine sketchbook is not a virgin anymore. I started working on it just last night. Couldn’t hold myself. Withdrawal, I guess.
“Sixteen” - Iggy Pop
Wearing my brand new BICHO shirt. Design: me. Stamp: Carolina García.
“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are ‘The Advertisers’ and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whethere you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing. You especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission. Don’t even start asking for theirs.”
“Últimas no-ticias” (2007). There’s a local yellow tabloid called “Últimas noticias” (‘Latest news’). I wanted to make mockery of that kind of journalism and the way our society (or should I say, the media?) turns criminals and outlaws into celebrities. Ink on paper + digital.
“Burro laburo” (the working donkey). I painted this collage back in 2007. Basically I wanted to depict the average working man, a slave to routine.
Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick.. I’m so mean I make medicine sick.
Motherfuckers from Hell.
This Sat. (Jan.14) I’ll be part of “Buenas Vibras” (good vibes), an exhibition at PLOP Art Gallery with this illustration I painted for an erotic book by JapiJane (a local sex shop), based on a story by Alberto Fuguet. I’m pretty excited, folks. Wish me luck or die.