My overcoming Diary

The last few years have been tough physically and emotionally. Art has been my medicine to help overcome along them. Some time ago, the potential of the arts was recognized by the WHO, which created a strategic plan integrating the arts as a complementary therapeutic tool, in prevention, treatment and recovery from diseases. In this section I expose my most intimate works with the hope of encouraging everyone who is going through a delicate moment of health to use it.

Epidemics

Mixed media on canvas. 80x80x3 cm.

2019-2020: without scape. Starvation, need and COVID.

Covid haunts the globality of the planet, but in some corners of Africa it is not the only problem: hunger, is another of its historical epidemics that has motivated repeated migration dramas in the Mediterranean Sea.

COVID-19

Psychosocial risk is an ergonomic aggravator for the skeletal muscle system. The work shows how stress and exhaustion influence the outcome of a work. The week of March 9-15, 2020 was especially intense for me. The outbreak of cases of SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus or COVID-19) meant that during the 12th and 13th of March could not stop work activity, having started early morning with telephone calls, visits and managements until past the afternoon and beyond. Since then, the work has been intense until mid-May, affecting this situation on a psychological level.Stress has a physical effect on the tension in the muscles of the face, neck and back as a preparation for reacting to a stimulus that is dangerous and relaxes once it has passed. In the case of chronic muscles, it is constantly tense, which causes a decrease in blood flow to the muscles, thus reducing the supply of oxygen and nutrients, generating a greater accumulation of toxic waste and lactic acid. which entails a limitation of movement. Stress is involved in coordinating muscle groups while maintaining posture and balance during movement. This process involves headaches, chronic pain, contractures … so manual dexterity is also affected.

COVID-19. March 2020. Mixed media on paper. 29,5x21cm