Jack Mercer, better known as VC Pines, started suffering epileptic seizures as a teenager. Now, he is telling the story of his condition and how it has affected his life through his debut album, MRI.
VC Pines is baring not just his soul, but his brain. Black and white skeletal images showing the inner workings of his grey matter illustrate his music, as do the harsh, eerie pulses of MRI bleeps and buzzes that have soundtracked a huge part of his life.
He started suffering seizures while at college in London at 17, and when his epilepsy was at its worst they were happening almost daily. It was a scary time. Now 29, he has learned to love the way his brain works, and is sharing his story through his music. "But if someone now were to say, 'take this pill and it will be gone tomorrow', I wouldn't. I've learned how to deal with the seizures and I've learnt how to use them and my synesthesia to do what I love doing. I appreciate there are a lot of people who have epilepsy but aren't mentally and physically able to do that, so I'm very lucky in the sense that I'm able to channel it.
"I fell out with a lot of friends and I was completely different, basically - and I was still having seizures. So I thought I'd rather be myself and have seizures than not be myself and have seizures. So I don't take medication for it anymore."
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