Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
 
The worlds of fashion, society and pop culture are captured in the illustrations, paintings and watercolors that the artist creates.  In some ways they are the same characters and events that Manuel Santelices covered in the past as a journalist in New York.
 
This watercolor work exemplifies the fluidity and vitality of the contemporary.