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What the Animals Had to Say
¡Qué dijeron los animales!
This series of etchings, aquatints and letterpress prints were part of my Master of Fine Arts in Illustration at the University of Arizona completed in 2008. In 2012 I published a bilingual version of the book available in amazon.
What came first, the story or the image? “What the Animals Had to Say” explores the relationship between the creation of images and stories. As an illustrator, I often create illustrations for stories, but in this work the images informed the stories, and both later defined the final illustrations. Beyond this process, this work is a minute version of human history, or passages of it, as some sacred books have recorded. It also depicts different facets coexisting in our own personalities that shape our behaviors. As a spiritual book, as its narrative suggests, it calls for a harmony between man and nature and within man himself.
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