Main inspiration for my heart character was Cookie Monster from Sesame Street.
I didn’t want my heart to be boring. On top of the deep meaning, I wanted it to be fun and more easily get to a wider audience. Therefore, an idea to create a heart character. Then was the question, what would be my inspiration for creating one? It took me a while but then I thought of Cookie Monster. At first glance, he is very easy-going and single-minded but deep down can have deep thoughts with greater meaning such as a healthy lifestyle, eating unprocessed food, and living a better, safer life. It reminded me a little of our hearts. A lot of people take it for granted, have low physical activity and bad eating habits, and assume their heart will work perfectly till death. We don’t need to have any heart problems unless it’s because of genetics, but we have to put work on it like for anything else. We have to introduce better habits in our daily lives, less stress, more physical activity, and healthy food. Of course, all of it is easier said than done but we can try our best. MOMO is the heart that was affected by a bad lifestyle, it starts to fall apart which you can hear based on the sound it produces. MOMO is not perfect, but can be. And that’s my meaning behind the project.