Edmond Leonardo Fernandez Jr. is an artist, sculptor, and designer who began to study at the Art Institute of Chicago as a child. By the time he was seven years old, his heightened sense of curiosity had led him to look at quantum mechanics, time and Buddhism through the readings of Bob Toben and doctor Who. He continued with weekend art classes through high school and , after entered into the School of the Art Institute of Chicago , he received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1997, with an emphasis on design. His father, who is a metal fabricator and studied architecture, worked for Mies van der Rohe, and his mother, who gave expression to her appreciation for nature and beauty, were early and abiding influences on his work. During his junior year at SAIC, in a course called Philosophy of Imagination, Fernandez first began to connect his art to another influence on his life that had begun in his childhood—epilepsy.

Though words cannot articulate the experience of a seizure, he realized that through his art he could capture and depict the moments when electrical energy surges into the brain and evokes a hyper-awareness of all the senses, creating extremes of experience that he has come to call dimensionalism.

In these pre-seizure moments of raw energy, when every sensation is experienced in dimensions, Edmond's interior life becomes kaleidoscopic. His mind allows him to experience the distortions of reality as they occur. To interested physicians who specialize in epilepsy he has described sensations of time, when he moves in a blink between hyper-awareness, suspended animation, and then being stretched between the points of a thought. A familiar place can suddenly create the sensation of being in three places at once, almost, he says, like being on three different broncos kicking and bucking in different directions yet you are on all three at the same time”. The self that can feel totally detached from everything even the sense of being human… can then, in another blink, become immersed in everything.
Edmond gradually began to realize that if he could harness the extremes he senses, he could stay conscious and in control and thereby postpone and, increasingly often, prevent a seizure.

He has disciplined himself to remember and revisit these sensations in his work. Choosing materials and creating designs with them is as calming to him as meditation, and it is when he is calmed that he is able to produce projects that range from the stark elegance of his evocatively shaped blank canvases to his sculpted mobile, “Self-Portrait of One’s Entire Life.” His work is his medication he says for it settles the restlessness he feels of disorder in the world . His involvement weather art, interior design, product design he would like to infuse the energy he experienced in his pre seizure events with a tone that affects the world with positivity and a moral responsibility for the better of humanity.

His richness of images he also attributes to his study of the writings of Marcel Proust and Rene Descartes, the art of Damien Hurst and Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamps, the Futurists, ideas of quantum mechanics, quantum entanglement, time travel,brain wave studies, and currently ideas of Morphic Resonance.