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6 May

After sharing my film with you guys I want to post something very special to me, the page in my sketchbook where everything clicked for the first time. This is the first time I drew Galileo with Celeste.

I knew I wanted to make a film about space, then I read about the ancient astronomers, and then I found Galileo, and then by chance I found the story of his daughter, Suor Maria Celeste Galilei.

6 May

Here is my second year film at CalArts, Celeste and Galileo. This is the story of Galileo Galilei and his daughter Celeste in a time when humanity’s perception of its place in the cosmos was challenged by Galileo’s invention, the telescope.

If you’re interested in their story, you can read the letters of Celeste to Galileo when she was in the convent and he was in domestic arrest http://galileo.rice.edu/fam/daughter.html#letters

30 Apr

HI everybody

I’m finally updating my blog after a really long time. I’m very happy to announce my new film, Celeste and Galileo. I’m gonna post it online on Friday, so wait for it!! I can’t wait to share this with you guys.

This is the poster my good friend Miguel Otalora did for the film. He is crazy talented and I’m so lucky to have gotten him to collaborate for this.

11 Mar

I thought I’d share this illustration I did for Alejandro Carrillo, a Mexican poet who organized a project of 100 poems with 100 illustrations. This is my contribution.

Here is the poem in Spanish:

Dicen los expertos que a los tres meses

los bebés todavía creen
que sus papás y ellos son uno solo
sin división
un único caldo de moléculas
bailando en el jugo tibio de Dios

uno sólo con el cuerpo de sus padres
(esa masa de amor que ya no se acuerda
lo que es vivir sin estar

separado)

I won’t translate the poem because I would just slaughter it, but I talks about how babies, until age of three months, still believe that their parents and them are one, that they still swim in a molecule soup of God and love.

6 Mar

a future bride getting ready

6 Mar

<3 Godard <3

2 Mar

These drawings are from yesterday’s life drawing. I loved trying black paper, it was very fun. The last drawing is very different from how I usually draw, but my teacher really encouraged me to think in shapes instead of body parts to focus on really observing.

Throughout the years I follow this cycle of being stuck in one style and go back to observation and discover everything all over again. It’s gonna repeat many times I hope.