Edmundo

This series explores the impulse of the creative act through the story of my uncle who was diagnosed with schizophrenia when young.

After spending time with my uncle Edmundo I came across the electronic devices that he repurposed. I immediately identified myself with his need to express creatively. As an artist I connected with his need to interfere with reality via creativity. Schizophrenia forced my uncle to interrupt his studies when he was a teenager. Since he has has been confined to his bedroom.

This world that I share with my uncle came up thanks to a relationship based on freedom and playtime, one that resists a context of judgement. I want to celebrate my uncle's creative capacity.

My interest is to expand the image under which someone like my uncle is represented. The mise-en-scene images, the built objects and my interventions, by weaving wires and objects to the prints, are my attempt to open a dialogue that concerns what I consider to be a limited visual vocabulary when telling stories related to mental health. In the case of my uncle's story I want people to see him beyond his mental health issues. I want people to see him as I do, as someone full with potential and brilliant ideas.