Category: sketches
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Finding Mohán’s Face
There is no such thing as the one and only Mohán. Depending on where you are in Colombia, or who you speak to, he can be old or young, enormous or almost human, frightening or seductive. He can have horns, huge teeth, wild hair, enormous hands or a beard that would easily defeat Hagrid in…
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In search of a monster
Before the Mohán became the centre of this story, there were a lot of monsters. For years I kept coming across animations inspired by Japanese, Nordic, Irish, Mexican and other mythologies, and wondering why I rarely saw the same treatment given to Colombian folklore. It is so rich and deliciously bonkers that eventually I felt…