Yoda Navarrete
Artist
What do you make?
I illustrate dreams, mine, and somebody else’s dreams too. I also work on my journals, in a way to explain to myself who I am and how I change.
Where else on the web can we find you?
You can find me here on deviantart on my facebook account (I have never known how to link to that, hehehe) and on my blog
What did you dream about last night?
I dreamed I was at a party. The theme was a carnival and everything was black, red and white, even people’s costumes. There were trapeze artist, fire eater, clowns and, on the wall, they were projecting images of showgirls. I was wearing a ringmaster’s suit with a top hat, black makeup on my eyes and deep red on my lips.
What inspires you?
Dreams, music, movies, and things I read and see on the streets, but most of all the people I meet, my friends and family.
Where do you live and what do you like about it?
I live in Mexico. What I like about it is the colours and imagination people have here.
What is your biggest fear?
That I could get blind and also ending up alone.
Name a few of your favorite movies \ books \ websites \ bands:
Movies: Labyrinth, Mirrormask, Lost Highway, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Pulp Fiction.
Books: One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marques), Lighthouse Keeping (Jeanette Winterson), It (Stephen King), Mirror In The Mirror: A Labyrinth (Michael Ende)
Websites: I spend most of my time going around flickr.
Bands: Moloko, The Beatles, Radiohead, The Ditty Bops and recently Colleen.
What are you really good at? What are you really bad at:
I’m really good at remembering faces, images, places and dreams.
I’m really bad at remembering dates and sometimes names. I knew when my birthday is until I turned 15.
What is your favourite thing to eat?
Sushi, pizza, tacos and raisins covered with chocolate.
How would you like to be remembered?
As a dream maker.
What is the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to you?
Once I was attending at the film festival in my city. When the movie we were watching was ended I heard one of my friends making a joke saying that she recognized me because of my big ass and I yelled “I don’t have a big ass”. Everybody there turned their heads to see me, the film director, actors and actresses, all of them. It was really embarrassing but really funny at the same time.