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Tanta tristeza de tantas cosas (they / them)
¿Pero, qué significa amar una base de datos?
ÂżAmar un chico quien es una flor
que es una chica quien es un gato que es un tren?
Cute accelerationism1
Querida Melody,
¿Qué personaje de Sanrio2 eres?, ninguno, yo soy creepy and cute.
My Melody, es una coneja que usa un gorro rosado. Vive con sus amiges en el bosque de Mariland. Siempre lleva puesto el gorro para cubrir o proteger sus dos orejas. My Melody lo lleva siempre consigo, es algo como mĂĄgico, como si el gorro la pudiera proteger de algo, o quizĂĄ como aquella cosa que atesoramos y usamos para sentirnos segures. QuizĂĄs sea lo mismo para los dos, para ella y para su gorro.
El personaje de My Melody pertenece al grupo Sanrio una empresa japonesa que creo a personajes como Hello Kitty hacia 1975.
Ya no puedo escribir tu nombre
porque, aunque sepa tu nombre,
no sé quién eres,
no te conozco
ni tĂș me conoces a mĂ.
Yo no conozco a My Melody, alguien me la presento hace un año atrĂĄs. Se percibe como alguien suave, tierno y extraño. No la conozco, pero de alguna manera me he sentido conmovida ante ella. Vi un par de capĂtulos del dibujo animado en YouTube, y me conmovĂa mucho la ternura del personaje. Mientras la veĂa sentĂa que era algo que querĂa poseer y cuidar.
Cuando pienso en My Melody pienso en todas las veces que la he visto dibujada miles de veces en distintas paredes de distintos lugares o reinterpretada en distintos productos para diferentes ocasiones: fiestas infantiles, grafitis, medias, stickers.
RĂ©plicas de My Melody que varĂan su diseño original, para no tener problemas con la patente. AsĂ, de miles de maneras My Melody es reinterpretada, copiada por la industria comercial, y la humana.
Miles de otros dibujos sobre la coneja, que se parecen quizĂĄ mĂĄs a las personas que la dibujan que a la original My Melody.
Gabi4 me decĂa, poder identificarse con el dibujo deforme, que parece algo que se parece algo que conocemos, pero no es ese algo tampoco. Pero decimos âsi soyâ (âŠ) o cuando nos enamoramos de un personaje de ficciĂłn y ese personaje nos representa, en toda su deformidad o no humanidad, o animalidad, en la pluralidad de existir (âŠ)
Si My Melody viviera en el mundo humano, ÂżquĂ© relaciĂłn tendrĂamos con elles? ÂżquĂ© sentimientos tendrĂan? ÂżEstarĂan tristes como nosotres, serian they / them?
CĂłmo My Melody podrĂa resurgir a este momento y en quĂ© se transformarĂa al traerla a este presente en su forma original como conejo, un conejo que vive dentro de una manada de 14 conejos, que se mueve, que salta, que come. Un conejo que esta vestide con unos jeans, a modo de piel y de ropa.
QuizĂĄ My Melody podrĂa ser un conejo random que ni fuera conejo pero que pareciera conejo, pero que tambiĂ©n pareciera otra cosa, un cuy o una rata, un gato. Algo que se parece algo.
Como dice Gabi un dibujo deforme, con el cual nos identificamos, precisamente por esa ambigĂŒedad (they / them)
QuizĂĄ en esa ambigĂŒedad se pueda responder que personaje de Sanrio somos.
Somos, en ese no conejo, no My Melody, no rata, que vive con otros que también desfilan en esa indefinición.
Un grupo de conejos que viven juntes, lloran juntes, duermen juntes.
Que se dicen âte amoâ, âyo tambiĂ©nâ.
<3
Marisabel
So much sadness from so many things (they / them)
But what does it mean to love a database?
To love a boy who is a flower
that is a girl who is a cat that is a train?
Cute accelerationism1
Dear melody,
What Sanrio character are you?2 None, I am creepy and cute.
My Melody is a bunny who wears a pink hood. She lives with her friends3 in the Mariland forest. She always wears the hood to cover or protect her two ears. My Melody always carries it with her, itâs something like magic, as if the hood could protect her from something, or maybe like that thing we treasure and wear to feel safe. Maybe itâs the same for both, her and her hood. .
The character of My Melody belongs to the Sanrio group3, a Japanese company that created characters like Hello Kitty in 1975.
I canât write your name
because, I do know your name,
but I donât know who you are
I donât know you,
and you donât know me
I donât know My Melody, someone introduced her to me a year ago. She comes across as soft, sweet, and strange. I donât know her, but somehow, Iâve felt moved by her. I watched a few episodes of the cartoon on YouTube, and I was really touched by how tender the character is. As I watched, I felt it was something I wanted to possess and take care of.
When I think of My Melody, I think of all the times Iâve seen her drawn thousands of times on different walls in different places or reinterpreted on various products for different occasions: childrenâs parties, graffiti, socks, stickers.
My Melody replicas that alter the original design to avoid patent issues. In this way, My Melody is reinterpreted thousands of times, copied by the commercial industry and by humans.
Thousands of other drawings of the bunny, drawings that perhaps resemble the people who draw them more than the original My Melody.
Gabi4 told me: the power of identifying with a misshapen drawing, something that resembles something we know but isnât quite that thing either. But we say, âthatâs meâ, âI am â, (âŠ) or when we fall in love with a fictional character and that character represents us, in all its deformity or non-humanity or animality, in the plurality of existence (âŠ)
If My Melody lived in the human world, what relationship would we have with them? What feelings would they have? Would they be sad like us? Would they be they / them?
How My Melody could reemerge in to the present, and what it would transform into if I brough her to this moment in its original version as a bunny, a bunny that lives in a herd of 14 bunnies, that moves, that jumps, that eats. A bunny dressed in jeans, as both skin and clothing.
Perhaps my Melody could be a random bunny that wasnât a bunny but looked like a bunny, but also looked like something else, a guinea pig or a rat, a cat.
Like Gabi says, a misshapen drawing we identify with, precisely because of that ambiguity (they / them).
Maybe in that ambiguity we can answer which Sanrio character we are. We are, in that not-bunny, not-My Melody, not-rat, who lives with others who also parade in that undefinition.
A group of bunnies who live together, cry together, sleep together.
Who say, âI love youâ, âme tooâ.
<3
marisabel

Project carried out at Jan Van Eyck Academy residency 2025
They/ them bunnywalk,2025.
fabric bunnies, denim, brass, denim, aluminum.
Heart-shaped base made of aluminum and steel.
Studio View at Jan Van Eyck Academie, NL.








my meloÂŽ 2025.
Tempera on cotton paper, 23 x 31cm.

I dont know you and you dont know me. 2025
Fabric, metal frame, plasma-cut aluminum and brass.
130cm x 90cm x 50cm. Studio View at Jan Van Eyck Academie, NL.


My meloÂŽs hood, 2025,
Plush toy, fabric, stockings, heart pins, heart key chains, band-aids, cat hair,
gold nails.160cm x 160cm
Studio View at Jan Van Eyck Academie, NL.


my meloÂŽ 2025.
Tempera on cotton paper, 23 x 31cm.

im very cold, 2025.
Aluminum, animation, 7â screen, Raspberry Pi 5, speakers, 40cm x 60cm x 55cm. Music by Aster
Studio View at Jan Van Eyck Academie, NL.

im very cold, so much sadness from so many things (they /them) . 2025
Stills of animation, 1ÂŽ38ÂŽÂŽ editing and drawings by
marisabel arias, music by Aster.

I love you me too, 2025.
Aluminum. 70cm x 25cm x 8cm.
Studio View at Jan Van Eyck Academie, NL.

my meloÂŽ 2025.
Tempera on cotton paper, 23 x 31cm.



Love Letter, 2025
Studio View at Jan Van Eyck Academie, NL.