Cover Story: Ana Juan’s “Metamorphosis”
Posted by Mina Kaneko and Francoise Mouly
The new Yorker - March 17, 2014
“I said to him, ‘If we’re going to get married, it has
to be now or never, because I want to look nice in the pictures,’ ” says
Ana Juan, the fifty-two-year-old artist who drew this week’s cover,
“Metamorphosis,” and who got hitched last month. “We thought about it since the
beginning, then we never found the moment, and then we forgot. But it was time,
after so many years together—it’s shameful!” she adds, laughing.
“He’s also an artist, and he’s German. We met twenty
years ago in Japan, where we both had a scholarship. Three months there, and we
were alone. We thought, It’s late and what can we do? Fall in love! Since then,
we’ve lived mostly in Spain, but I love to spend a month or a whole summer in
Germany, because the weather there is so much better—the sky is grey. I know
people are spending fortunes to spend summers in the sun, but I hate it.”
About this week’s cover, she says, “I love patterns. I
love designs—even if I mostly wear black or plain colors. Since I was a kid,
I’m attracted to patterned designs, from geometric to floral to patterns from
the Russian avant-garde. When I travel, I’m drawn to textile shops far more
than to other touristic attractions. Sometimes I’ll buy a couple meters of
textile to make a present for a girlfriend.”
Here is a slide show of Juan’s recent drawings for a
Spanish edition of Henry James’s “The Turn of the Screw”
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