Artist Hugo Teixeira is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of this photo essay. From the project ‘Hand-me-down Heart’. To see Hugo’s body of work, click on any image.
My first electrocardiogram forced me to confront the latent knowledge that heart disease runs in my family. Having lost my father a year earlier from complications due to heart disease, I felt as if the leads and electrodes of the electrocardiograph enveloped and constricted me, forcing me to confront my genetic fate. This series of self-portraits, of delicate collodion emulsion on glass and aluminum, is a meditation on that fate and seeks to capture that moment of morbid epiphany and the feeling of absolute fragility which accompanied that realization.
All images and text © Hugo Teixeira
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