Remirando el olvido – Rebecca Zurru Fernández
(II Prize for Research and Essay Therapeutic Applications of Art FMJJ 2020)
“Remirando el olvido. Creative strategies from art and education for the neurorehabilitation of stroke and the maximum functionality of the individual in his environment”, by Rebeza Zurru Fernández, is the winning essay of the II FMJJ Art Therapeutic Applications Research and Essay Award 2020. Extract: “The starting point and starting motor for this research arose between the end of 2014 and the first quarter of 2015 at the Hospital Dr. Moliner, Bétera (Valencia). During this period, my mother is hospitalized after suffering a stroke on November 15, 2014, and being discharged from the Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fé on December 10 of the following month. All her life she had dedicated time to creative activities […]. As a game, throughout my childhood and youth, I also had the opportunity for my spirit to be splashed and, in some way, later, to be infected by trying to help from the resources I had so that her days, as an intern at Porta Coeli, were more bearable. After suffering the accident I deliberately tried to understand how I interpreted the world and, consequently, expressed it through drawing. To get to know her better, to get closer to the new reality in which all of us were suddenly submerged, and she manifested from the first time she took pen and paper. […]”.
