"The garriris were born in the late sixties. I was about eighteen years old and I drew and drew, as always, compulsively. I loved to stain blank pages with pen, pencil or nib, watercolors or colored markers. They were born suddenly, almost without realizing it. I started to draw and I did it in two ways. The first one I called Tomar Apuntes, I would stand at the kitchen table or in front of any object and I would draw it. They were drawings of what reality was like. The balconies, my sister's nose, the slippers, the fridge and the Turmix.

The other was Memory Notes, invented drawings, drawing automatically, without thinking, letting yourself go. Sometimes they were exercises of making lines, lines and dots, lines, straight lines, parallel lines, wefts, spirals, dots, big dots and things like that. That's how the garriris were born. In the midst of pages with stripes, tables and lamps, invented carpets and coffee cups, little mice, little characters that jumped over the kitchen benches and bathed in the soup ducks and hid in the refrigerator. They were uncontrollable. They were born suddenly." Javier Mariscal