2023
Illustration
In the Philippines, during some celebrations we have Boodle Fights. A long table would be covered with banana leaves. Food would be bunched in the middle like a small hill – barbequed pork, grilled seafood, shrimp, crabs, and vegetables.
When the food’s all set, people gather standing up. You eat with your hands, and start ‘fighting,’ reaching for food from different parts of the table, and building your own little hill of food and rice on your side.
The amalgam of food and the idea of a ‘fight’ inspired these characters that pay homage to the designs of the late Ryu Noguchi. He could craft monsters and creatures out of anything in Japanese from the deeply cultural to the mundane.
These characters have completely interchangable components alluding to the different combinations of food you can have while in a Boodle Fight.