Creature Creations
Violeta Encarnación is an illustrator and animator born and raised in Cuba, who now resides in New York City. She also works as a senior tattoo artist at Skinblu, an inclusive tattoo studio in Brooklyn.
For her Zócalo Sketchbook, Encarnación has created five tattoo designs, each of which gives life to a different animal or plant creation myth: The peacock nods to the tale of Argos, the trusted watchman of Hera who put his eyes on the bird to honor him after his death. The cheetah comes from the traditional Zulu story …
