♡♥︎ January 20 2020 ♥︎♡
Orchids, stars, constellations, white dwarf stars, black holes, a feast of traditional food, walk, cold, rain.
I would grow an orchid garden just for you
I would grow an orchid garden just for you…
I would open my skin to plant the seeds of your favorite flowers,
water with my blood the small buds to root their bulbs with my arteries
and keep the substrate wet with the stream of my eyes.
I would retain the warmth of your orchids with the fire of my heart,
while my vanilla essence would attract insects to pollinate every flower.
I would feed only on their nectar and occasionally on yours.
I would learn to run through the hills with my imagination just to be with you,
and if I got lost I would find you by your smell of coffee and paper.
I would build a secret refuge under the leaves for you to hide
whenever you need to be absent from the world.
I would draw clouds around me to refract the light.
I would write new orchid names and paint them in your favorite colors.
I would let you cut the flowers with the edge of your madness
and make them grow again infinitely.
I would give anything to see you smile every day.
I would grow an orchid garden just for you.
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Cultivaría un jardín de orquídeas sólo para ti…
Abriría mi piel para plantar las semillas de tus flores favoritas,
regaría con mi sangre los pequeños brotes para enraizar sus bulbos con mis arterias
y mantendría el sustrato húmedo con el flujo de mis ojos.
Retendría el calor de tus orquídeas con el fuego de mi corazón cuando te siente cerca,
mientras mi esencia de vainilla atraería insectos para polinizar cada flor;
me alimentaría sólo de su néctar y ocasionalmente del tuyo.
Aprendería a atravesar cerros con mi imaginación para estar contigo
y si llegara a perderme, te encontraría por tu olor a café y papel.
Construiría un refugio secreto bajo las hojas
para cuando necesites ausentarte del mundo.
Fabricaría nubes alrededor mío para refractar la luz.
Escribiría nombres nuevos de orquídeas y las pintaría de tus colores favoritos.
Te dejaría cortar las flores con el filo de tu locura y las haría crecer de nuevo infinitamente.
Daría cualquier cosa por verte sonreír todos los días.
Cultivaría un jardín de orquídeas sólo para ti.
Artery skein: My monster heart
ENG. For this piece (Artery skein: My monster heart) I started with a couple of sketches, one very general and one in which I worked lights and shadows, but I felt that something was missing in the illustration, so I worked on a lot of new sketches until I found the right one. When I start inking, I usually use different thicknesses of pens, but this time I used only one and liked how it turned out. For the color palette I was inspired by bugambilias, in all those beautiful magenta and cherry shades.
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ESP. Este es una probadita del proceso creativo de Artery skein: My monster heart. Comencé con un par de bocetos, uno muy general y otro en el que trabajé luces y sombras, pero sentía que algo le faltaba a la ilustración, así que trabajé en varios bocetos más hasta que el dibujo salió tal como lo quería. Para la ilustración en tinta generalmente uso estilógrafos de diferentes grosores, pero esta vez usé sólo uno y me gustó mucho el resultado. Para la paleta de colores me inspiré en las bugambilias que llenan de color la ciudad, particularmente de esos colores guinda y magenta que tanto me gustan.
Inspiración para la paleta de colores / Color inspiration
Etapas de la ilustración / Illustration process
“In fairy tales, monsters exist to be a manifestation of something that we need to understand, not only a problem we need to overcome, but also they need to represent, much like angels represent the beautiful, pure, eternal side of the human spirit, monsters need to represent a more tangible, more mortal side of being human: aging, decay, darkness and so forth. And I believe that monsters originally, when we were cavemen and you know, sitting around a fire, we needed to explain the birth of the sun and the death of the moon and the phases of the moon and rain and thunder. And we invented creatures that made sense of the world: a serpent that ate the sun, a creature that ate the moon, a man in the moon living there, things like that. And as we became more and more sophisticated and created sort of a social structure, the real enigmas started not to be outside. The rain and the thunder were logical now. But the real enigmas became social. All those impulses that we were repressing: cannibalism, murder, these things needed an explanation. The sex drive, the need to hunt, the need to kill, these things then became personified in monsters. Werewolves, vampires, ogres, this and that. I feel that monsters are here in our world to help us understand it. They are an essential part of a fable.”
― Guillermo del Toro
☽ ☽ ☽ ☽ ☽ We are all monsters ☽ ☽ ☽ ☽ ☽
Jardin Secret
