{"id":570,"date":"2021-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/concomitentes.vl22350.dinaserver.com\/el-arte-debe-tener-la-funcion-de-mejorar-la-vida-de-la-gente\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T18:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T18:51:17","slug":"art-should-have-the-function-of-improving-peoples-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concomitentes.org\/en\/el-arte-debe-tener-la-funcion-de-mejorar-la-vida-de-la-gente\/","title":{"rendered":"\"Art should have the function of improving people's lives\"."},"content":{"rendered":"

Galician, artist, with a touch of humour in his work that brings out smiles. Miguel L\u00f3pez, better known as The Hematocritic<\/a>, is the second artist selected to design the graphic history of our concomitance in Tenerife, Paediatric ICU, which takes place at the Hospital Universitario Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de la Candelaria. How do you face the challenge of accompanying admitted patients through art? He tells us about it in this interview.<\/p>\n

How do you face the challenge of creating and collaborating with Concomitentes? <\/strong><\/p>\n

With great joy, humility and pride that they thought of someone like me to do something like this. I know it may seem crazy that an author, specialising in humour, is in charge of helping patients in a paediatric ICU, through art. But it makes a lot of sense, and I think it's lucky, I feel very lucky.<\/p>\n

With what inspiration do you start this production? <\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the things I have in common with the people who make up this project - the nursing staff of the Paediatric ICU, Felipe and Andr\u00e9s - is our ability to listen and empathise, to put ourselves in someone else's shoes. Therefore, I start with the same idea of listening. I have to listen, I have to learn, I have to perceive, and I have to feel. In our meetings, which we have had by videoconference and especially the face-to-face one, I have soaked in and enjoyed it very much.<\/p>\n

\n \u00abI also got emotional and my hair stood on end, I was sad, I felt all sorts of things. But, above all, I felt respect and admiration for what these professionals are doing, their human quality and the point of view they have on their profession. I wish there were more people like them\u00bb.\u00bb <\/p>\n