“Now I look at the Moon differently”
- Antton Olariaga is already the official CARTOONIST of this product. He has also put images on the 2022 agenda, where he says he has tried to help people with drawings and give a push to Jakoba Errekondo’s “rich world”. “The things that people think are hard they see in the drawing and hurry! If I am able to do this!’ I have done it with the idea of saying.”
For several years you have been involved in the projects of Bizi Baratze.
Yes, we already have a great relationship, I would dare to say that Jakoba and I have become almost friends! (Laughter). No, now we really do manage very well, I'm an ignorant on these issues, but he explains things so well and so well. It gives me a lot of facilities, and it's a pleasure to work with a testator like this. In addition, he is also a landscaper and has his sensitivity. I like to submit a proposal and receive your opinion.
This year’s issue is the most beneficial. I don’t know if it’s the easiest thing to draw…
The issue of fertilizers was very difficult for me, because it does not move, it is not alive, it is not an instrument… But well, I love the challenges of what I don’t know. I turned around a lot, thinking about how to focus those illustrations that open up the months on the agenda, and I also talked a lot with Jakoba. Finally, I decided to collect the activities that are carried out around fertilizers, showing people of all ages. Hey, if everybody's eating at the table, everybody's going to have to work, right? I have also played with imagination on this agenda, chanting different characters and landscapes in each scene.
Will we therefore learn to make different types of fertilizers at each time?
Yes, and from time to time I have interspersed some instrument: of overturning the earth, of fertilization… On the other hand, I have also tried to give a little perspective to the images, which can be seen in the fields, or in the stables, or in the distance… When what I have to explain are descriptive things, I usually draw to read. Those scenes have to be read, and I think that's great, knowing how to read the images as well.
Have you learned a lot from the moon, from the earth and from the plants for all these years?
No doubt! Little by little I got to know and there are things that are authentic discoveries. For example, I find the underground struggle great: who does harm to whom, who protects who, who rubs insects, who feeds… This underground war is not the Cold War, it is the Hot War! All of that seems to me exciting. Anyway, I don’t take it into practice, because I don’t have orchards… I’m an asphalt child! But yes, it's true that now I look at the moon differently.
