Esteban

I don't know much about Esteban. He is very very shy and quiet, but he sits or stands forever looking at and observing things very closely. He also doesn't seem to understand or speak much Spanish, but the wonderful thing in art is that you can show how things go. He was very timid with the tools yesterday, but gained more and more skill. (He has started only recently with black and white drawings, but his images are very interesting and unique. In one drawing, for example, he filled a whole page with giant dengue mosquitoes; another page is entirely filled with black vulture-like birds).

 Today he pulled a beautiful jaguar print.

May 17th update. Esteban's favourite subject matter is the mosquito. I've seen drawings of his where a whole page is filled with mosquitoes. He seems to enjoy unpleasant things it seems, because most of his drawings show vultures, skunks, spiders, and mosquitoes. He is still awfully shy, but he smiled today at supper and said he learned lots. "The other day it was hard to make a print, and today it was easy." Here are various stages of the mosquito print.Wouldn't want to get stung by that thing!