About a month ago I was asked to participate
in a very cool collaborative project called elmonstruodecoloresnotieneboca. This is an art project that was initiated by
Roger Omar who collects written dreams of children from all over the world and
has international illustrators illustrate them. I’m still not sure what
motivated this fascinating man to start collecting dreams (since 2002!!) but I
believe it’s an amazing project that was quite fun.
The Guidelines were to choose one dream and to
illustrate it while considering the size and color limits. Some of the
dreams were hilarious and some of them scary as hell which made me realize that
sometimes dreams have no age.
I chose a dream of a girl named Mar (it means
sea in Spanish) who is 9 years old:
"I
dreamed that my house was on fire, and it was a fire made of water, and I was
swimming inside"
I'm afraid that my approach was too dreamy but
you can see other illustrators interpretations at the project's blog.
The results were printed on a book that will
be launched in an exhibition called "journey among dreams". I will
write about the event in the next post.
(cover
illustration by Teddy Goldenberg)
