{"id":26358,"date":"2020-06-03T07:36:14","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T07:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=26358"},"modified":"2020-06-03T07:36:14","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T07:36:14","slug":"modeling-disability-softly-making-the-invisible-visible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/modeling-disability-softly-making-the-invisible-visible\/","title":{"rendered":"Modeling disability: softly making the invisible visible"},"content":{"rendered":"

Modeling disability: softly making the invisible visible<\/a>, by Libby Evan (2020) Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers 74<\/h3>\n

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\u201cI am not asking for pity. I am telling you about my disability.\u201d – Eli Clare1<\/p>\n

In the following Bachelor of Fine Arts thesis statement, you will not find someone overcoming their disability. You will not find a tale of inspiration. You will not find a cure for ableism. You 2 simply will find an individual’s experience of disability\u2014 my experience of disability.<\/p>\n

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Impossible stairs<\/p><\/div>\n

My invisible disability puts the medical model and social model of disability in constant tension as I navigate everyday life living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and severe arthritis. Both models seek to find blame for disability, whether in searching for a medical cure for illness or putting blame on society at large for creating barriers. Instead of abiding by these limiting models, I cope with disability in my own way. I embrace the contradictory notion of having significant physical limitations while giving into the pressures of our capitalist society to physically produce.<\/p>\n

I make my own models through accepting my identity and embracing the human-like, huggability of soft sculpture. As a sculptor, I do not need to find blame through theoretical models of disability. Instead, I make literal models representing my lived experience. I turn my invisible, private experiences into visible, public ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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