Instead of talking about the vegetable garden, you have talked in your space of Altza Porru, Asisko…

Well, I'm a citizen, very nonsense, and as a family, I've never had anyone in my neighborhood in the hamlet. Now that I've made my life, I have a relationship with the earth, but it's really a very new relationship. And I'm amazed to see how the earth has the power to devour everything. We continuously give work to the earth, we exploit it… and what can we give it back? Our shit! I gave him back what I can to appreciate all that he gives us to mother and to the earth.

The morning bathroom visit is a good opportunity to awaken imagination and creativity, right?

Actually. At first, when I built the cache at my door, I left there a couple of books. But then I realized that reading in the day-to-day, with the landscape in front of us, was to misinvest time. It is my little daily luxury, a place to be with myself, to see how nature presents itself: rising up the sun, passing the crane, passing a bug… Those moments are for me an impressive therapy. And often, in those moments when the head is left in the middle of nirvana come the ideas, the creativity and the humor to start the day with good humor.

Have you ever had an orchard? A vegetable garden serves many things.

Before, when I lived in Pamplona, I had no orchards, but now I did. I'm a farm dog, a domestic dog. It is called Etxaperro who works at home in Otxagabia and in the Region of Pamplona, and I have usually drawn it at home. Now I go out to the garden to draw many times. Almost all of the Altza Porru comic book I've drawn it in the orchard, taking advantage of the good weather. The vegetable garden has, therefore, a very diverse use.

You can also have some erotic...

That is obvious! We Basques have rarely used kaka-conversation and sexual conversation directly. However, in ancient songs and texts they have appeared by metaphors: In those old cocks of Tolosa, for example, when they said “leave the leek at peace and not eat the roasted apple”, I don’t think they talk about dietetics (ja, ja)… I think the garden as natural and healthy is a perfect place to make pineapple! Plants, moreover, have no modesty, they show their eroticism in a shameless way, and I'm really interested in that.

What does it mean to draw your head with cucumber face in the book presentation?

Here, if you look subliminally, something phallic may come out. On the other hand, Marko Armspach, draftsman and friend, has been trying for years to make my cartoon, and he got it after it took a long time: he drew a very long pickle and he got me very well drawn. Since then, I think I see myself in that cucumber that Marco made.