Mika Obanda

Yes, it's very therapeutic for me.

I have a lot of racing thoughts and the patience that comes with working with eggshells, I think it slows me down slowly by slowly until I finish the whole artwork.

And it can take even two months or maybe even, there's an artwork which I did and it took six months.

Yes.

Sometimes I even realize that I place a particular very good color in a particular place without even knowing.

So like it can get me to that place where I can be so in the moment that I even forget I'm working.

I just feel like I'm just having fun.

And basically that's art.

The brown has a lot of orange.

That's why I mix it that way.

Specifically for this person, you can see the others are like a bit pale.

This one is popping out more because I'm like showing the main person in the artwork.

I want him to be so visible in a way that no one can assume him.

Yeah, basically that.

Yes, and actually I love the texture.

Yeah, you know, in a way.

Yeah, so sometimes it's like maybe that noise was meant to be there so that I clear something.

So I just accept that nature plays its part at times.

So you can see the studio is so hot that I have to put water in the glue so that it doesn't dry down, the glue doesn't dry.

I started getting into drugs.