BASQUE CULINARY WP TROPHY
Basque Culinary Center World Prize. Donostia. 2015
Like a superposition of layers: Engine of changes, transforming fire, gas fire, blue, looked from above, from the sky, this is how a star, a flower, a diamond forms us. Indigo, the color of the worker of the sea, of the garden, of the producers who nourish kitchens with food…
STELE OF ARACELI ECHEVERRIA
Uharte Cemetery. Navarra. 2015
With the death of a loved one our lives are filled with pain. With the passage of time our greatest consolation is the memory that remains in our memories and in our hearts. Commemorating, remembering (re-remembering, from the Latin “to pass through the heart again”) is undoubtedly spiritual work, but we can contribute to it with a unique physical element of our missing person; a funerary stele… This metallic proposal combines respect for the tradition of classic stelae with the latest technology: it allows us, through a computer process and cutting with high pressure water, to transform a portrait of the deceased into a “cloud” of perforations circular ones that let the light pass through and show us the illusion of his illuminated face. Depending on his position, the light that passes through it projects this portrait like a delicate graffiti of light that fluctuates with the clouds and the seasons, appearing and disappearing with the vagaries of the weather. Without the “violence” of a literal photographic portrait, this quieter and more poetic trail model promises to cross time without succumbing to fashion.
Hika Teatroa. Donostia. 2004
Groau!, a text that, despite following the structure of classic stories, tells us a story full of emotion and action that deals with a topic as important as the problem of feeling rejected for being different. Yolanda Arrieta really wrote a story in which many children can identify with our protagonist, the cat Mitsi. And she did it with simplicity and clarity, through agile dialogues, very short phrases and with moments of great action that of course have helped to create a great stage game. Hika Teatroa’s assignment consisted of designing the graphics, sets and costumes for this children’s play from 2004.