14/02/2025
⚠️THE MUSE OF THE ATOLLOS // (Fragment)
“Everyone says I’m crazy. They don’t believe me. I’ve gone to psychiatrists to get them to explain things to me, I tell them I see things and they can’t give me an explanation. Then they want to give me pills and I don’t take anything, because pills are for crazy people and I’m not crazy. I think that crazy people don’t reason and I do. My husband doesn’t get involved, he’s left me this room for my troubles, he leaves me alone, because he knows that the paintings relieve me, make me feel better. When I wasn’t painting yet, I had worse times. Once I finished everything that was inside the house and nobody could stop me.
At night I can be sleeping and see how I float, I feel as if I were in the air, but I know that I’m not floating. Or I can see that I’m sitting near the bed and at the same time be aware that that can’t be possible, I talk to her, she’s like my double, I’m myself, she’s my muse that doesn’t sleep (…)”
ESPERANZA CONDE RODRÍGUEZ, «PÍA», Dolores, Villa Clara, July 2019.
La Piel del Grito (Yaysis Ojeda Becerra, Editorial Hypermedia, translation Lidice Megla, 2022)
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