Symbiosis. Justin Case x Zinkete

Collaboration with photographer Justin Case as part of his “Symbiosis” portrait series project.
Dr. Case took me a photo in an abandoned aquatic park near Barcelona.
We both brainstormed the portrait idea, backstory and details.

Original photo taken by Mr. Justin Case and first quick sketch.

Main character details.

The Treasure of El Carambolo was discovered in the neighborhood of
El Carambolo, which belongs to the town of Camas in the metropolitan area of Seville. It is the neighborhood where I grew up.

It’s a set of 21 gold pieces from the Tartessian culture, discovered in 1958.
It includes necklaces and bracelets, reflecting local and Phoenician influences, possibly as part of a priestly hoard.
It was buried in the 6th century BC, during the reign of King Argantonio, to hide it from an enemy attack.

Akira Toriyama’s work in Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball has been a reference for me since childhood. This pattern of colorful Son Gokus is a tribute to the sensei.

Mr. Chicken is a recurring character in my work. He is an absurd and playful character. Here we see him as a baby chicken playing with a bomb that has the Greek letters alpha and omega engraved on it, a symbol in Christianity of the beginning and the end of an era.

The bomb held by Mr. Chicken references two works that have always influenced me.

The first is the original Planet of the Apes saga. In the second movie, released in 1970, we are introduced to evolved humans who worship an atomic bomb in an underground cathedral. This bomb becomes the trigger for a reset in the storyline of these films.

Futurama is another work that has influenced me since it was first aired. Its sense of humor, its critique of current society from a future perspective, and its designs have been a great source of inspiration in my work. In one of the episodes of the first season, Fry travels to the underground of New New York and discovers that the inhabitants of this area also worship the same bomb as in Planet of the Apes.

If you spend too much time in the sun, your eyes will turn into fried eggs.

Nothing beats taking a selfie with a Game Boy Camera.
Photos with a high-quality finish to show off your vacation.

The Utah teapot is a 3D model created in 1975 by Martin Newell.
It is used as a standard in computer graphics to test rendering and modeling techniques due to its simple yet useful shape.
It is so iconic that it is considered the “Hello, World” of computer graphics.
The pink three-dimensional star is the icon of the 3ds Max 1.0 program and one of the basic primitives that comes with the software.
It is the program I still use today, and version 1.0 was the first 3D software
I started learning in 1999 with my first computer.

The slide is covered with stickers and tags from friends and artists I admire.

A fridge full of drinks to quench your thirst.

It is also very common in this era to cool off with a fresh popsicle made of enriched uranium.
The reference to this popsicle can be found in The Simpsons, another work that has significantly influenced me from the beginning.

Radi-Action is a nuclear energy drink that provides unlimited hours of energy.
In one of the classic episodes of The Simpsons, Homer mispronounces the word “nuclear.” In the original version, he says “Nucular,” but in the Spanish version, he says “Nucelar.”

Chernobeer is brewed with the finest radioactive barley from the irradiated fields of Chernobyl.
On its label, we can see the sarcophagus that isolates the core of the nuclear power plant for safety.