Anyway, I’ve heard you’ve illustrated a book that has recently been published called “El Nene Principito”, an Argentine version of The Little Prince. Can you please tell us more about the book? It is the first Argentine version of this classic, right?

Yes, that’s right! I’ve illustrated the first Argentine version of this wonderful book. It is called El Nene Principito. Its was translated by an argentine collector who lives in Spain: Gustavo Adriel Solé and it was beautifully edited by Spanish Publisher Círculo Rojo.
It’s a limited and numbered first edition and we would really like it to be edited in Argentina as well. 
This project was Gustavo’s dream of a lifetime: “to publish a careful edition of this universal classic so that not only the Argentine population but also foreigners who learn Spanish can read a version in the Río de la Plata variant of our language”.

El Nene Principito

What made you start working on illustrations for the book?

I heard through and acquantaince there was a calling for illustrators from Argentina and Uruguay, so I submitted my portfolio and was chosen to do it!

The Little Prince was one of my favorite classics ever, my grandfather used to read it to me as I was a child, and I still treasure this 1951 edition, it’s been keeping me company since my childhood!
I think my grandpa bought it for my mother as a birthday present, so it trascended some generations…
 When I found out I was going to invent my own version of this little prince, it was like “WOW, I can’t believe it, this is such a challenge”. I freaked out at first. But I knew I was going to make it, and while I was making him, he was making me.

Did you made them as collage? Please tell us how to make it, the process?

It was the first project I had to illustrate just with collage, so I discovered a brand new way of making characters with this technique, and suddenly this little boy started to have a life of his own, a world built for him… and while I was cutting papers I felt his worries, his hopes and fears. They were mine too.
The process is somewhat magical, things appear before I look for them: textures, shapes, objects, colors, details, they organically find their own place in the illustration, as if they knew where they belong, before I do.
I create my illustrations trying to understand not only the visual aspect of them but also the emotional context of the characters and landscapes that appear. 
I work with scissors, papers and glue, then I photograph and digitalize the final image.

El Nene Principito

I think those are very nice on the book, very warm and your illustrations are lovely. How was the response of the book?

Thank you! I’m already having very nice responses from different places in the world where Gustavo is sending the book, and also many people from different moments of my life are contacting me because they really like this project. 
I feel this is kind of magical, it’s like reuniting all of my universes in time and space. Everything is coming together.