having fun
well I want to tell you an idea
an idea that when lackey will take
project made me flip back and
return to the origin
I am convinced and totally convinced
that the geographical space in which
we are born the culture that we have and the one that
we can continue to accumulate and our
historical past make us up and we
conform in a special way to each
who in every part of the world
I also think that concerns about
what we are going to do what we should
do
born from childhood and that this
historical past and this space is this
geographical are demanding us all
a commitment a commitment to action and
returning to this past origin to one
most recent
if I told them to imagine a
Japanese family
I think we all have it in our heads
almost the same image a Russian family
a typical Anglo-Saxon family and if you
I say a Mexican family there are chairs in
those that stirred the images not one
Mexican family is the first reflection of
what we are we are finally the merger
of two cultures the fusion of two races
and we have that since we were born
I grew up in such a colorful family
in which my brother all life
We chose the black and no one was offended not
today we can say black and I do not know
offends and what happens when I leave
this little bubble in which I live
very good
cultural diversity that we have of
food of music and colors to life
to begin my development I discover that
this is a huge problem for all
the Mexicans
what happened that caused concern in
me from that moment and I do a lot
reference to the Mexican coasts at
Greek because he entered the school of
art in art school
I have the present concern of all
ways and I discover that there is a text that
there is a text that looks like genesis
of the western bible is the popol vuh
from ignorance
wow is that the Mayans thought like the
Westerners and I decide that my work
final will be illustrate a book with this
restlessness of looking for where is my
commitment to my roots a text
ancient that was the dust
now although you can laugh because you
they can laugh
this program with which I made these
illustrations no longer exists
it was from the first programs and that was
the maximum resolution we could
have and if it makes them laugh but it ‘s real and
to be volumes I had to use
some tricks not a little emulating the
hand and so I did my project and come out and
afterwards as a professional although my
idea followed and she was a little asleep
I decided that I had to do a
project so that he lived from that
so I decided there were books but
I decided that my book project would
edit books by artists’ authors
Mexican graphic artists and so on
I started
I started doing books I started
publishing things of many Mexican people
between all that
As you can see I was looking for these people
Mexican who had the same concern
that I and that I was looking for exactly what
same
generated a collection of comics that
It also led to return to all
origins all projects make us
return to the origin we have to know the
history but how are we going to understand
after this I said ‘well I followed
doing my illustrations with a lot
ignorance but with in I took the
iconography of ancient peoples
mexican and asia illustrations and makes
several jobs I said perfect I can already
to do my project is the project that I
I thought doing is the time to do
I can do cartoons I can do
a book that is this project because not
it turns out that when I wanted to, I realized
that I did not know anything absolutely nothing
that as with what right I and with what
commitment could make the story of the
old mexico without having any
knowledge that happened that I had to
resort to interdisciplinarity the
interdiscipline means that I had
to study more part of the commitment
what do we have if we want to do things there
that studying is not so bad and I went to
study history and I found the
little tires that powered my bicycle
the minds that made me see that my
project the real thing that my project was not
silly and that was a necessity
that few of us realize that
we live with these two cultures
merged every day so in
the food in the locker room in the
architecture in the language
we are those two cultures merged
but we are no longer merged is the
same culture and those are us and
we should be proud
the problem is that as we do not know
neither can we tell anyone
they could understand why there are so many
foreigners who arrive in Mexico and
they are fascinated by what they find
but they know what advantage we have
that we are Mexicans we have
that same fascination and we are from here
then I had these great teachers
Guillermo Bernal who is a speaker of
maya studious of maya alfredo lópez
austin
student of the Mexican cosmogony a
speaker of the uaq and thomas smith a
great teacher to me an American who
he came and he was fascinated with us and
He dedicated his life to the study of Zapotec
unfortunately died because it has
lost with him a lot of research
now they three communicated with so much
passion your knowledge that more than
one
I do not think I’m the only one, not what
they transmitted and we are now
committed to them to get this out
ahead
when I discovered with them this
ignorance with which we walk all
the days
there is basically an important example
the languages
I do not know how many of you know what
chewing gum is a word that comes from
Nahuatl never told us good
it would be something so easy that in school
they told us elementary words that
we use every day and that we knew
which are from inagua -which would be so nice
leave to another country and say yes but to
all to chocolate but chocolate sorry
from mexico but we do not know how
we can do that because if I tell them
the kid is chipil because he was made
a chipote then we will give you chocolate
and many apapachos understood me there
some word that has not understood the
prayer is understood perfect
ok is a sentence composed with pure
words that come the uat and now
it turns out that they speak of guaqui what is their
commitment to study the uac from every
discipline
we could go finding our
commitments later when I continued
studying, a fascinating part arrives
for me studying the kind of
Mayan literature had already understood
because the popol vuh looked like
genesis of the bible
finally we must understand it
intelligent who were the ancients
Mexicans who joined the culture and
they enriched it and I find myself in a
comic meeting
pure with I want to imagine does all
wise not from your area discussing where
comes the comic because it’s important if
it was france yes it was belgium if the most
important was that they had these
communication dialogues with those
lines directed to his mouth no and in addition
very important were congruent with their
geographical space with its moment
historical and they were sarcastic uaw well
we can not demerit those works
but well this was the war of
Napoleon or what happens when I’m
studying with the teacher and discovered
that he is working the
transcription of some taps and that their
faucets are printed on a glass in a
glass like this that you buy
when they go to the pyramids and give it away
his grandmother and his aunt and they do not have the
lower idea means something if not
it means you only have monkeys that
they seem like indies, not because we do not know
this
well it turns out that this glass that is
investigating the bernal teacher is a
story and it is a story that responds to your
historical moment because because it is the
change of the young god by the old god
and it’s also sarcastic because the god
old his clothes were stolen
then they are making fun of him and not
only that there was a conspiracy of
rabbit that we see on the moon as a prize
was the one that helped the old god
was defeated is the story that is
they sat down to drink chocolate and they counted
tales that more fascinating than
find that they have dialogues and that
those dialogues have lines that go to
the mouth or where we put the story of
these glasses in the comic because no
we know this
imagine that they go india belgium and
I’ve won here ting and the comic
yes but you know there are glasses and
I will say good adapt the comic
has series also my glasses have
serious
this is the nahual of the old god the god
old when he was god he became
an armadillo full of riches and stones
and good as well as this glass there is more
vessels that the researchers are
translating what happens that I have a
discipline in which I will not compete
with the work of the researchers
I do here so I can give out
this can make you know
today of everything they know they do not know and
engage them in their discipline to see
what can do this good is already a
part of the project that I already gave light
this is an illustration of how
see also evolve me illustration
as they said many are never going to
illustrate on a computer already saw
All illustrations them
demonstrated with these digitally and they are
wonderful
here the computer programs have
evolved so that he comes to tell us
this
well this idea that came from my
ignorance led me to have a
real project a project that is already
walking through a project you need
much more and you need the
interdisciplinary researchers will
continue there with their jobs
I’m going to do jobs from your
investigations I will never feel with
right to say I already know if I’m going to
make my own book I know what I do
I know how to make books I can do
illustrations I can make a
publication is sold but I can not
do the research and translate a
mayan tap
you have to recognize now here there are so many
so many disciplines if we join
all from the architecture from the
which wants lawyers biology
all if we turn to access our
origin let’s find this merger of
cultures and we’re going to find something that
give us strength and support as Mexicans
to be able to leave many people tell us
go to another country because you’re going to do
better study other languages because it’s going to
be better because we do not define ourselves before
here and we are better before and after
we go and we tell everyone who
we are
it’s not bad to speak English
but good to speak náhuat I do not know if
do you know that one of the main
this scholars are in europe of
studies of water – what not and what has
there were Mexicans who have gone there what
they receive blandón water and nobody understands
nothing
officials that does feel good
let’s start doing something what we are
here we start to investigate what is
happening not what can we do
I invite you to my project
who want to join so we can do it
bigger what I’m doing is not
it’s nothing is the beginning there’s a lot to
a lot of character to do and this one
I hope I have created some uneasiness
returning to languages and I tell them how
they were told at the beginning they are going to finish
in the mictlan and they will say no to that
imagine the hell where they are going to
burn because everything they did wrong
they are going to pay him there in that hole not only
that mixes, it does not turn out that the
milan is this place of rest where
we will be relaxed living together
care with the lords of death
because our life and our test and
our commitment and our commitment
it was fulfilled and we finished then I already
I can only say if I do not go back
to see them
I hope I have awakened in you
some restlessness and turn the
little tires on someone’s bicycle and
If they want , we’ll greet each other again
calm and relaxed in the milan
Thank you
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