El Chico Solo

The artwork is essentially a brain dump from the trip we had to Mexico. Everything my mind latched onto was scooped out and slapped onto my computer screen. I crudely went about morphing these very rich and beautiful experiences into small gradated creatures frozen across the page. Some of the figures tie into Mayan mythology like the central tree and la ceiba, others are based on more personal experiences from the trip; the figure towards the upper left with a paintbrush was based on one of the children we painted with, who was later sprinting around with a Mickey Mouse piñata head as a helmet. All of the ancient myths colliding with these new experiences creates a huge opening for new imagery and stories to be born, that’s what I attempted to suggest with this work.