Plato’s Paradox

I have lived experience as the parent of a child affected by a life-long physical disability. These photographs are an expression of feelings and emotions experienced by myself.

The figures and their poses, some of which have been inspired by religious paintings, represent the awkward on-going struggle against societal barriers that manifests in such circumstances.

Photographs of landscape details have been projected over a body shrouded in a stretch fabric, set against a black background. The resulting images conjure alienated beings and dark atmospheres. These portraits visualize the other-worldliness and chaotic nature of life in the metaphorical disability landscape.

I make reference to the paradox of the prisoners in Plato's cave because disability is so unseen by the large majority of society, yet it exists every where and people choose not to see it.