Meet
Illustrator
Ana Juan |
Although
Frida lived with her five sisters, she was a lonely little girl.
So she created an imaginary friend. Every time she wanted to
meet her friend, Frida would do the same thing: she would steam
up a floor tile with her breath and then with her finger she
would draw a door on the steam. Then she would imagine herself
escaping through the door, flying over the streets until she
arrived in front of a shop called PINZ�N (which means "bird"
in English). She would fly through the letter "O" in the word
PINZ�N, which was printed on the store's sign, to the center
of the earth, where her friend was waiting for her. Only then
could she open her heart and tell someone her secrets. At the
top left side of the illustration, we can see the circle of
the letter "O," with the real world on the other side. I used
the color blue because it adds to the floating feeling. Frida
and her friend are surrounded by many objects inspired by Mexican
folk art, such as masks and mermaids. I doubled her as if she
were in front of a mirror because her imaginary friend was,
in fact, herself. |
