TWIPSY

We created a mutant character capable of symbolizing all the concepts developed at the Hannover 2000 World Expo.

To select the mascot for Expo Hannover 2000, the organizers invited twenty prominent international artists to participate in a restricted competition. According to the rules, the mascot had to symbolize the three basic themes of the World Expo: Humanity, Nature, and Technology.  Twipsy, the mascot designed by Mariscal, was chosen. Twipsy is a character who comes from a past as distant as the Big Bang, an expanding spark that became a star, a cell, an invertebrate, a reptile, a bird, a mammal, and now Twipsy.  Twipsy was born from a computer, which is why its morphology is like that of chewing gum, stretching and lengthening, shrinking and flattening. Its very essence determines its form. Twipsy must also represent a being capable of understanding all the codes used by societies in the year 2000; not only Western codes, but also those of cultures that are distant from Europeans but which must necessarily be present in this society, which is already so mixed.