Ezequiel Suarez is inspired by Outsider Art, that is, art created by those without academic influence; self taught artists, the mentally ill, the marginalized and the alienated.

Ezequiel was drawn to Outsider Art as a way of circumventing the close scrutiny and relentless information gathering that precipitates censorship in Cuba, considering this type of art making untainted.

This series of embroidered sandpaper pieces have been created with a third party in mind. Taking on the roll of a schizophrenic, the "artist" personae that Ezequiel becomes frenetically sews for the viewer excerpts of his imaginary dialogue with Fidel Castro. (Art Cuba. The New Generation). Words are sewn with different color threads onto the smooth side of the sandpaper. These words are grouped together tightly as if condensed into an isolated, obsessive thought in the mind of the artist. On the rough side, the threads seem random, crisscrossing tautly in a mass of tangled emotion creating elegant abstract shapes.

Ezequiel Suarez graduated from the Academia de Artes Plasticas in San Alejandro in 1985. He is co-founder and co-director of Espacio Aglutinador in Havana. He has had numerous solo exhibitions and has been in group exhibitions in Cuba, Columbia and Mexico.