Kike Payá. KIKELIN

“Miguel Hernández”

C/Orquídea, 13

2015

This work, by cartoonist Kike Payá “Kikelín”, is among the most representative pieces of San Isidro district murals. The cartoon-like portrait of Miguel Hernández represents, as stated by its author, “the physical identity, character and personal history in the features and the anatomy of a face”. Kike Payá was also a curator at the 2013 and 2014 editions of the. In this painting, the poet is shown embracing an onion as a tribute to the lovely Lullaby of the onion poem.

In the cradle of hunger my child lay.
With onion blood he was suckled.