A tribute to traditional amate drawings that are part of mexican folk combined with an endangered mexican animal that was considered a mystical creature by the Aztec culture.
Your Swiss Army Knife 2017
Your Swiss Army Knife 2017
A tribute to traditional amate drawings that are part of mexican folk combined with an endangered mexican animal that was considered a mystical creature by the Aztec culture.
Ambystoma mexicanum, anfibian also known as Axolotl. From the nahuatl: Atl-Water Xolotl-Monster. It is an endangered mexican salamander that lives in lakes.
Prehispanic and even Contemporary México
He is Lupe a nice creature that lives in Xochimilco Lake, in Mexico City. He likes to swim among the aquatic weed, and collects nice flowers and objects that are dropped on the lake. He keeps a secret diary where he draws self-portraits on amate paper as a resemblance of the ones the Aztecs used to wrote their codices. Lupe loves his country and is very proud to show himself to the world.
Flat illustration, because it is a nice way to emulate amate drawings, which are traditional on mexican culture since the Aztecs. Amate is brown paper that is created from the bark of different mexican trees. Amate drawings are handmade by mexican artisans and painters that usually use colorful flowers and animals and sometimes traditional architecture.
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Hi, I'm MarthaLilia: wanderer Mexican designer. Monsters, animals and nature lover. Distracted, dreamer, sweet sour contradictory urban woman.
