1. Your name: Vidya Gastaldon.
2. What do you do? I draw and paint. I also do yoga and gardening.
3. Origin: France.
4. Destination: dust and light.
5. Favorite boy: mass.
6. Favorite girl: I can’t chose! I love my sister and all of my girlfriends.
7. Favorite creature: UCHU my white British crowned guinea pig.
8. Teenage dream: living in a castle or a farm in the countryside. But now I live in a farm…
9. Something you fear: fear.
10. First thing you do when you wake up: I have an English royal breakfast tea in my Queen mother “flowers of the month” tea service…
11. Last thing you do before falling asleep: touch Mass
12. What influences can we find in your artwork: I’ve got so many. From the sacred texts of Hinduism to Sponge bob. From Crumb to Goya, from Franck to Bosh, Fmurr to Turner… etc. but I do my cooking and I don’t like citation art.
13. Do triangles have any special meaning to you? I love trinity; in three dimensions a flat triangle has 4 points. It’s when 3 turns into 4. It’s when the concept becomes reality.
14. And the presence of yellow brick roads? I never saw the movie “Wizard of Oz” before drawing them. The yellow brick road is an allegory to life’s path. I think it’s nice to walk through a bright-high road with fantasy and freedom but solid as a brick. We can have beautiful points of view when we are walking along the path of the yellow brick road.
15. Favorite character from the movie “Wizard of Oz”: none, they are a bit tasteless.
16. Do you think Dorothy was a virgin? …No…I’m sure she had a special crush for the tiger.
17. What’s the composition of your cosmos? An infinite global cosmic smile.
18. The weirdest comment they’ve said about your paintings: That they are weird.
19. What gets you in the mood to create this different world? Reading, doing yoga, meditating and nature.
20. Does candy help? No. Not anymore.
21. I’ve read the name Krishna a couple of times on your illustrations. Who is he? A blue guy who gives good advice and helps out from time to time (as he has already done several times).
22. Have you ever thought of painting the tenth avatar, the one incarnation that will herald the end of the world? I’ll do it some day! I already drew the Kalihuga vision…
23. Your last words are put here: “All things are ready, if our minds be so.” Shakespeare.
T: Leandro Andrea Huerto Cruz
Rocket Magazine Madrid
