- Title: Celestine & the Thing from the sink
- Date: 2009
- Material: Wood and clay
- Work Type: Children’s book character. Toy sculpture.
Celestine & the Thing from the sink is a children’s story of my authorship. In order to bring this character to life I draw several illustrations, a logotype as well as a sculpture of the character made in wood and clay.
Book 1: Dreamerium: “A boy who dreams”
There was once a little boy named Celestine, who one night went to bed to have sweet dreams. That very night he dreamed he was in a fun fair full of nightmares and monsters. This fair was ruled by an evil Harlequin who tried to steal his dreams.
To escape from the Harlequin, Celestine hid into the House of Mirrors. Lost among the mirrors he found a glass door. Behind the door there was a one-eyed octopus monster trying to get out.
Not knowing it was a door, Celestine thought:
“If this is a mirror that means that what I see in it is my reflection. But if what I see is a monster, the monster would be… me?”
When Celestine gets up the next morning, he discovers that there is an octopus monster attached to his body, in place of his legs.
As the monster know how to wash the dishes, Celestine’s parents decide to name it “the Thing from the sink”. The thing loves apples, and it doesn’t care about cleaning up the house. However, it has no idea how it ended up attached to Celestine.
When a dream comes true
I created “Celestine and the Thing from the sink” in 2009, during an illustration workshop with Anita Mejía, a Mexican illustrator.
One year later, during a toy sculpture workshop with Matucha, another Mexican illustrator, I sculpted the wood/clay toy of the character.
At the beginning the story’s name was supposed to be “Tentaculos” (“tentacles” in spanish), so I designed a logotype and some brand applications, but as the title changed the brand was never used.
