HAS ANYONE TOLD YOU YOU GOT ADHD?

This exhibition started with a question.

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I'd just moved to Mexico City with a one way ticket, a fresh divorce and no real plan beyond starting over. A few minutes into my first therapy session, my therapist looked at me and asked:

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"Has anyone told you you got ADHD?"

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It completely caught me off guard.

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Then she pointed out something I'd never thought about before. The way I use colour. The way I jump between intense colours and stark black and white. She suggested it wasn't simply an aesthetic choice. It was emotional. My work had been expressing things I hadn't found the words for.

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The more I reflected on it, the more everything started making sense.

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I've also lived with synesthesia for as long as I can remember. I don't just hear music, I see it. Colours, shapes and textures appear automatically. Looking back, I realized those two worlds had been influencing everything I'd made, long before I understood either of them.

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This exhibition became a way of exploring that.

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For the first time in my career there wasn't a client, a brief or a deadline. It was just me trying to understand why I make the things I make.

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In many ways, this is the most personal work I've ever created. It isn't about ADHD, and it isn't about synesthesia. They're simply the lenses through which I experience the world.

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It's really about identity. About starting over. About making work that doesn't need anyone else's approval before it can exist.