Mika Obanda

When they are dry, they don't have any smell.

And then after painting them, I break them, and they get very hard when I paint them with a very thick layer.

Yeah, so then I flatten them with my hands.

Yeah, like it's now even harder.

So then I have to get a scalpel.

and then slice them piece by piece into very simple shapes.

And also, while cutting them, I have to know where I'm going to place them, because if it's a very large area, I'm going to cut them into very bigger shapes.

So I am, like, taking the color brown.

It's, like, next to orange.

So I've made these kind of green trees and leaves with it.

And then there's a crowd of people.

The main character in the work, who has, like, a coat, which has...

leaves growing on him he's trying to be honestly himself and then everyone is like surprised and they're like looking and even someone is like sniffing out the leaves that are growing from him showing people that they'll watch you grow they'll watch you flourish they'll watch you be this person who they never thought you'll be and I'm going to pick some eggshells and get the knife and then I take a brush and some glue

I apply them at a particular place.

I use wood, MDF boards, sometimes ply boards.

So I use now a bamboo skewer.

It's like this thick, which is used for mostly food, mshikaki, that kind of thing.

And I pick one like that.

Yeah, or I can even, sometimes I don't even use my hand.

I can just go like that.