Hope

Mingei aims to inspire people to celebrate human creativity, as well as recognize and embrace their own creativity, in ways big or small. Through an inviting and always engaging look at a range in diversity of thoughtful design, careful crafting and passionately made objects around the world. The tree of life has many symbolic meaning such as, fertility and abundance.

Hope is the meaning I wanted to be present on the piece. People tend to lose hope during tough times and through moments in life that seem impossible to overcome and in seeing the good in things; I wanted the tree to express and remind people they are not alone, to keep going.

The client provided me with the idea of the tree of life, to tell a story. To design vector art for a 3D wooden sculpture for a

mini fundraising campaign. Created for the reopening of the museum.

This sculpture contained approximately 150 removable pieces, that would be gifted for each donation.

Deciding on three ornaments to represent each of the five categories being; mythical creatures, alebrijes, insects, nature

and universe. All coming together to spread hope.

The figures being a mix of inspiration that was inspired from the museum’s collection of artifacts, their usage of organic forms and research on the latino culture touch in art.