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.
Jakoba Errekondok eta Mattin marrazkilariak Altza Porru komiki liburua aurkeztuko dute ostegunean, hilak 26, Ategorrietako (Donostia) Iturritxo jatetxean, 19:00etan.
Baratzea gaitzat hartuta Jakoba Errekondok eta zortzi marrazkilarik egindako Altza Porru komiki liburua aurkeztu da urtarrilaren 4an Hernaniko Biteri Kultur Etxean, 19:00etatik aurrera. Ainara Azpiazu Axpi hernaniar irudigilearen Arian Arian erakusketaren barruan egingo da... [+]
In Altza Porru we’ve seen you as the owner of the Jakobian building, a superhero who becomes a walnut… Haven’t the cartoonists really bothered you?
I guess not. I already have friends to those cartoonists, and you know what happens to friends… What has happened with... [+]
Vegetables buying in the supermarket, in the bar drinking small pines, listening to Su Ta Sagar… Isn’t it too much?
I find this way of life that we carry so fast exaggerated. Apparently, in the comic book, vegetables represent a chaotic world, but surely there's the life... [+]
Despite having participated in Altza Porru, you haven't made a full comic book story unlike the other cartoonists. Has Jakoba censored you?
I knew that Jacob intended to censor me, and so, with self-importance, I decided not to give myself that opportunity. And yes, it's true... [+]
Horticulture and politics have come together in your comic book. A bit surreal.
I heard Jacob say that whoever does not understand the garden is not a Basque cult. He turned my head around. One day, at ETB, they kicked off part of a Urkullu rally and I looked at their hands. It... [+]
Everything you know about the vegetable garden has been put into eight pages in Altza Porru. Did you not know much then?
Well, no. I know little and I also forget how little I know. I remember asking my mother how to sow the garlic and she responded. Two days later, I called... [+]
You've drawn a universe of permaculture, ecological orchards, biodynamics and zero junk philosophy. It's a paradise for Jakobit!
Yes, that is it! I love to imagine the natural tendency of nature to perfection when we don't intervene. Today, we always walk behind, inventing systems... [+]
What has been the experience of Altza Porru? Have you had to check the book Bizi Baratzea many times before you start drawing?
Good experience! I in the garden, the truth is that the experience is zero. Or rather zero negative! But I've learned a lot. The orchard has taught... [+]
It's up to you to introduce yourself to your compatriot Jakoba Errekondo in Altza Porru. Is it not a fat issue?
Yes, it was a small text, but it was a great responsibility. I felt the weight of responsibility over me, a cold sweat. In fact, it's the presentation of an important... [+]
With RISA TRAVIESA, I speak the comic book that tempted me by the edge of the towel. The garden seems made especially for those we love a lot, we enjoy its fruits but we do not practice. Eight street cartoonists have given the garden a complete imaginary and a sense of humor... [+]
Visitors were able to taste the seasonal products that approached the Ekonekazaritza Experimental Farm in Karabeleko on 16th. Jakoba Errekondo, in collaboration with eight Basque cartoonists and ARGIA, have found the right place to start the presentation of the book ‘Altza... [+]
As waiting for the first pea plant that the hortelan sowed, Jakobita awaits the new book. Date of departure. The best seller Bizi Baratzea bought the best seller at the Durango Fair and they ate it in their entirety in the coming weeks, they have come to all the presentations... [+]