Inés is an artist from Mexico who keeps her work fun, strange and
trippy. She has a library full of colorful zines and
hand made trinkets that are just really, really cute.
Hey Inés! Describe your artwork in 3 words:
psychotic fruit punch !!!!!!!!
When did you first start creating zines?
i’ve always liked drawing and making stuff. i remember when i was around 6 i made activity books for my friends. i grabbed empty notebooks, numbered the pages and filled each of them with letter soups, join the dots, and all kinds of drawings and other stupid things to do.
What is your favorite thing about living in Mexico?
the beautiful weather of non-existent seasons and the delicious food. also the illegality of law, but that’s kind of a double edge sword.
Tell us about the project, Café con Leche, that you started with your boyfriend:
we’re always fooling around, like 5 yr olds with paint and glue. we make up a million joke projects and sometimes actually end up doing them.
In spring of last year, we made up this big plan: sigur rós was coming to méxico and we were going to buy an LSD blotter for re-selling, so we could afford our tickets AND eat acid at the show………but things twisted up and we ended up spending that money on a lot of textiles and pretty buttons to make plushies.
…and since then, we’ve been doing bastardines (that’s how we called them). Roi (my boyfriend) thinks we’ve done over 200 already!
What are you currently working on/ any plans for the future?
I’m looking for a job. I want to travel. I’m also working on this comix anthology with my canadian friend Ginette Lapalme, featuring comics from the american continent. We hope it’ll be printing in January 2010.
