Category: thoughts

Discomfort Zone

“I want to travel and paint around the world”. Dreams are ideas waiting for us to start doing stuff that will eventually look like a plan. Some years ago I decided to experiment and moved abroad, 20.000 km away from all I knew. So much to do, and so little idea how. I had already […]

Poetry in Daily Life

A whimsical, stylized painting by Animalitoland titled "Memorias de las vías." Two rosy-cheeked, animal-like characters ride a small wooden cart on a train track. The character in front, wearing a deep purple outfit with a hood and ears, sits on the cart, holding a flag. Behind them, a smaller character in a similar outfit pushes the cart. The scene is set on a series of merging train tracks, under a large, arched structure, with a blue, dreamlike atmosphere. A shadowy, ghost-like figure of a dog is visible in the foreground to the left.

In the society where I grew up, there was an unspoken rule: once you become an adult, playtime is over and the things that bring you joy belong only to your free time. So you wait for the weekend, because during the week you are exhausted from long hours in a job you do not […]

Contemporary Street Art

Art can feel like a secret language. For a long time, the idea that you needed special knowledge to decode it kept many people away. I think that’s why Streetart became so massive: simple people started doing simple things, anyone could relate to. Then it grew, big projects involved bigger teams and regulations, and suddenly, […]