“Wholeness has Parts” will be a multi-sensory photography show. The overarching creative concept explores inner vision and interdependence. It will challenge the lines we draw between “this” and “that”. It will consider relative size and shape and ways these can shift. Blur will be beautifully framed alongside distortions dancing with light and shadow. The show will invite audiences to pause, to pay attention, to listen, to feel. It asks “where is wholeness here?”
Photography feels like a sacred rebellion for me. It invites me to challenge beliefs and engage possibilities in alternative ways. This body of work reflects a deep journey of dismantling medical models of disability and internalized ableism. I was diagnosed with diabetes as a child. “You’ll go to the hospital, and they will fix you up,” the pediatrician told me. Tears swelled in his kind eyes. After becoming legally blind in my early 20s, strangers approach with offers to “heal” me. For years, the stories about fixes and cures spiraled inside. “I’m not broken,” I coached myself, silent resistance to the power of societal messages that seemed so big. The creative process with photography and verbal description added new parts to my world. Photography’s joy, struggle, insights and interactions will be reflected in this emerging work.
More to come!
Thank you to the Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (VABVI) for the tactile donation.