§ 01 Product. Hrafn · Mug · 19,00 €
AK · 29 · Hrafn 01 / 04 Portrait of Hrafn the Common raven on a mug
AK · Nº 29 / 36 Hrafn · Seyðisfjörður, Austurland (fiordos del este), Islandia

Hrafn.

Mug

The midday coffee lasts twenty minutes and is drunk standing up: that's what this raven mug is for, with the portrait of Hrafn, a postman in an Icelandic valley from my Animal Kinhood series, where the animals dress and live like people.

Printing
All-over, vibrant and washableAOP DTG · sublimation
Production
Cut and sewn in 3–7 daysOn demand · no stock
Shipping
Worldwide with trackingUSA / Latvia
Warranty
Defective? We reprint itAt no extra cost
19,00 € Tax included · white-label
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§ 02 The real species. Corvus corax · Common raven
Common raven (Corvus corax) in the wild Foto: Roger Worden / Unsplash
The real species

Common raven.

Corvus corax

If the pass opens, I go up. If it doesn't, I go up tomorrow.

An extreme generalist: boreal forest, coast, steppe, mountain, Arctic tundra and desert across almost the whole northern hemisphere. In Iceland it is a year-round resident, even in midwinter, on sea cliffs, in fjords and around the edges of towns.

§ 03 The story behind the portrait. 3 min · 02 chapters
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CAP · 01 / 02

Coffee Behind the Third Post

There's a thermos of coffee behind the third post past the bridge. A pair of dry gloves in the gap in the wall at the farm below. A wrench under a particular rock at kilometer six, a rock with nothing special about it that he'd pick out of a thousand. He doesn't call it foresight. He leaves things along the route and knows months later exactly where each one is, and if someone sees him leave one, he comes back another day and moves it somewhere else.

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CAP · 02 / 02

Twenty Minutes and the Weather Report

Salka works shifts at the fjord fish farm's hatchery station. He leaves before dawn; she starts in the afternoon. They overlap at noon: twenty minutes eating standing up in the kitchen with the weather report on the radio, her still in her boots and him without taking off his coat. They've been doing this for four years. The hiding-spots thing, by the way, isn't unique to him: the common raven caches food in hundreds of different places and remembers where every one is.

Hrafn · Read the full biography
§ 04 Technical specs. Category · pod
Material & composition
Cerámica con interior de color · sublimación exterior
Production
Print provider: PrintfulProduction method: sublimationProduction time: 2–7 busin
Care & maintenance
Apta para microondas y lavavajillas según indicaciones Printful. Evitar choque t
Shipping & timing
Shipping category: mug
§ 06 More of Hrafn. 08 objects · same author
§ 07 What people ask. 08 · about POD
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  • Open editions (main shop) are on-demand products with no copy limit. Limited editions (the Editions section of the shop) have controlled numbering and premium finishes with gallery-grade materials.
  • Yago Partal is a visual artist and photographer from Barcelona known for Zoo Portraits (2013), a project that brought his work to international media. Animal Kinhood is the evolution of that artistic exploration.
  • No. No animals participate in or are harmed during the process. The portraits are created combining photography, illustration, and artificial intelligence. They are fictional characters representing real species with respect and dignity.