Interpretación gráfica sobre las laceraciones del krokodil en el cuerpo humano

Abstract

The present proposal aims to represent by plastic techniques the physical lacerations of the human body after the consumption of krokodil or desomorphine, a heroin substitute drug, and disseminate the information to college students.To this end, a series of activities were carried out through research, artistic production, management and dissemination, through different means, of everything acted on the theme of drugs. The theoretical component, based on bibliographical research, through the reading of texts and interviews with professionals from different areas, and in descriptive research, through surveys, crosses the whole sequence of practical activities and dissemination of information. One of the axes of the project was the elaboration of illustrations obtained through a process that began with the reading of texts and the subsequent creation of sketches, which served as base for the production of the illustrations realized with manual and digital techniques. Another substantial phase consisted in managing the meeting with young students of school with whom it was interacted based on the illustrations and the dialogue centered in the knowledge and information of the krokodil. It was the personal motivations of the author of the project about the crude and cruel reality that the drug world contains and affects large sectors of society, including college students, who supported the project and the consequent participation with the young boys.