Frustrated musician, designer displaced by technology. Then I became a craftswoman and visual artist. I studied half a degree in psychology; I hope to finish it someday. I’m currently pursuing a PhD in art and design, exploring the intersection of bioethics and imagery. I’m an autistic woman becoming aware of the invisibility of my condition to the rest of the world and trying to navigate and explain the complexity of my comorbidities, such as depression, anxiety, and an eating disorder.
I love music, I wanted to become a classically trained one but I was laughed at. Placebo, Garbage, and Depeche Mode are my favorites; I even moderated the latter’s official forum for several years, I also love Recoil, the cinematic and experimental side project of one of its former members, Alan Wilder, and the legendary Argentinian band Soda Stereo and its deceased frontman Gustavo Cerati.
Other obsessions are paper art, enamel works, absolutely all birds (especially aquatic and marine ones), calligraphy, and writing. I was a voracious reader as a teenager, now out of necessity. I grew up surrounded by doctors and hospitals, and much later in life became interested in bioethics, psychology, mental health, and public health. I have an annoyingly photographic memory for drug names (thanks, Dad), like diiodohydroxyquinoline, which I learned at the age of 7.
My life is truly absurd; I try to distract myself with humor in art, in nature, and in a less frivolous side of Formula 1… now I’m a fan of 11 (Sergio Pérez) 16 (Charles Leclerc) and 81 (Oscar Piastri). I could easily watch a F1 race on the wee hours of a Sunday and then go out to do birdwatching.
Lenina Villela 