{"id":2030,"date":"2020-04-23T18:08:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T18:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2020-04-23T18:52:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T18:52:31","slug":"visual-art-piece-glass-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/uncategorized\/visual-art-piece-glass-press\/","title":{"rendered":"James Pryor’s Major Project: Visual Art Piece; Glass Press"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For my final project I chose to do a visual art piece. The physicality of the piece is two panes of 8\u00d710 glass compressed together with excerpts of poetry from our class, along with both fabric and real flowers in between said pieces of glass. The compression on the glass is caused by the symmetrical placing four of heavy-duty binder clips against the glass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The metaphorical ideas behind the creation of this piece stem from the ideas of preservation. By using excerpts from the following poems; Rebecca Foust\u2019s \u201cApologies to my OBGYN,\u201d Craig Romkema\u2019s \u201cPerspectives,\u201d John Lee Clark\u2019s, \u201cDeaf Blind: Three Squared Cinquain,\u201d and Emily Dickinson\u2019s \u201cMuch Madness is divinest Sense,\u201d the viewer sees art created by disabled authors, who are often forgotten in art. Whether it be the art of a disabled person being invalidated, or straight up destroyed due to living in a violently ableist society, the reality is that nondisabled people choose to overlook the art created by disabled artists. However, while there is an unmeasurable amount of art that has been lost due to ableism, the art that remains is preserved eternally. Placing the poem excerpts between two panes of glass ensures the security of not being tossed aside. This metaphor of fighting for visibility is continued with the intentional strain that has been placed on the paper the poems are on. An ableist society is one that attempts to crumple up the art made by disabled people and throw it aside, because they do not value it with the same weight as their own art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ugly truth is that nondisabled individuals do not want <\/em>to hear about the personal experience of those with disabilities. Often when a disabled person is recounting their own personal struggled, nondisabled peers will berate them for complaining or whining, implying that talking about these ableist interactions in life are the fault of the disabled person, not the oppressive structure society has been founded on. On the other side of this doubled edged sword, if a disabled person views their disability in a positive light, they are also berated by nondisabled people who push the ideas that anyone who is not inside their definition of normal needs to be \u201cfixed\u201d or \u201ccured.\u201d The use of the flowers in this piece coincide with the wishes of the Disabled Rights Movement, where flowers are seen as beautiful, disabled individuals should not automatically be considered worthless or seen as eyesores to the greater idea of humanity as a whole. The use white and blue pansies, alongside the red rose petals stand for the beauty of each individual. However, the inclusion of the pink and yellow orchids calls attention to the issue of death against disabled people. This applies specifically to Foust\u2019s poem, where she recounts the neglect her son faced from medical professionals who deemed her son not worth the effort to keep alive, unfortunately a common prejudice held by doctors and nurses alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preserving the art made by disabled individuals, and by extension the disabled community, is a key factor in creating a society that will not overflow with ableist prejudices. Nondisabled people need to learn empathy for those who do not fall into their rigid categories of normal; exposure to art made from every point of view is the best way to teach others to care about humanity as a whole, not just those within their line of sight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I pledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Word count: 569<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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