Carmen Lu Páez (KURIKITAKATI) is an Ecuadorian graphic designer, illustrator and visual anthropologist, her works are largely influenced by the language of comics, merging the realistic with the cartoon. She is interested in the processes of visual production and graphic content, and how they relate to everyday life.
MILKSHAKE
Milkshake is a story about friendship, curiosity, imagination and collaboration.
The idea was born one day when I went to Ruskin Park and saw some children and a dog “fighting” with a fallen tree. This was a few days after a storm here in the UK.
I was so moved by this image that I wanted to tell a story in which children play and imagine worlds without needing anything other than reality.
Remembering what my cousins, my sister and I used to do. Play as a way to relate to the world and to each other.
The World
To have a pencil is to have a key.
When we begin to create and manage to enter into a trance with our creations, that is the moment in which we no longer belong to reality but to a world created totally by us.
The anchor within this creation is in all lived experiences.
And when needed, come back to ourselves to be able to enrich our universe, to fill ourselves with more experiences. It is incredible to think that all we needed was a pencil.
Contact:
Email: holakurihola@gmail.com
Website: www.kurikitakati.com
Instagram: @kurikitakati