An Intro Post
As a disabled person, I am starkly aware of the differences between my everyday life and the lives of my abled peers. Certain things that have become banal to me, such as fainting frequently, are underrepresented in the public eye. Through my art, I attempt to capture these moments of disability and bring them to light. I depict vulnerable, first-hand, experiences with disability using bright colors and bold lines to capture my overstimulating encounters with the world and force audiences to positively engage with the disabled experience. My work aims to communicate disability to nondisabled audiences while simultaneously providing disabled individuals the opportunity of finding accurate representations of themselves in art. My most recent ongoing project is a collaboration with Sage Look ( The Savannah College of Art and Design) and Maxwell Whitehurst ( The Art Institute of Chicago). Through approximately 25 minutes of music and video, it explores my experience of being chron