Abel Azcona

"As much as I try to isolate death desires from my life, they have accompanied me since I can remember."

"How is it necessary to be born just for the sake of being born? I should never have been born."

"I was born to be sad. I was born to suffer."

"My life and work feed back to such an extent that creating is living, and living is not possible without creating."

"I was born on April 1, 1988. Birth certificate 2841329, dated December 2, 1991, proves that I legally did not exist until I was about four years of age."

"I don't currently have any kind of family and I have had to learn to live each of my artistic and vital processes in total solitude."

"When I regained consciousness, I was transferred to a psychiatric clinic. I stayed there for twenty-two days. Against previous diagnoses, which identified a bipolar disorder, I was diagnosed with a pe…"

"Working with pain and the body to the limit, living with wounds and a mental illness, sleeping awake invaded by night terrors, all this entails a spirit of resistance."