Umbrales

"Yolanda de la Torre (author) - Born in Mexico City, Yolanda is a writer. Raquel Gómez (designer) - Born in Mexico City. She is a Web designer, front end and Web developer. Mónica Nepote (publisher) - Born in Guadalajara, Mexico." "This hypertext assembles materials written by patients from the Emil Kraepelin psychiatric clinic in Mexico City who participated in series of therapeutic creative writing workshops led by Yolanda de la Torre in 2014. In Umbrales, a selection of the patients' texts—published with their consent, but anonymously to protect their privacy—are presented through online interfaces that allow readers to explore, manipulate, and collaborate with their writing. In 'oscuridad' ('darkness'), one of four categories presented in umbrales, the reader directs a 'flashlight' or 'lantern' across a webpage in order to partially illuminate a series of scanned handwritten texts. Other sections of the piece allow readers to rearrange texts, wait for them to transform, or write their own with a virtual pencil, punctuated by music and often startling sounds composed by one of the clinic's patients. Umbrales makes use of an experimental literary form in order to challenge essentialist and binary models of mental health." -- From Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3