I am sure that is a fascinating topic.
Preliminary thoughts are the persistence and normality of disability in the arts. Renoir, Monet, Van Gogh for instance, who were artists first. Then there is the ghetto of identity politics art where impairment comes to the fore, and beyond that the "ooh however did they do that" factor.
I am simply an artist, when I speak it is poetry (no monsieur Jordain I) when I snore in my sleep it is music, when I dress it is fashion, and when I go for a crap, well Freudians can have a field day with that :)
There is art and there is artifice, and most of what is called art I call artifice and what is artless is the real thing. I'm with William Morris. Was he a disabled artist, poet and craftsman nah he was transcendant but still dialectical not to mention tactical in a way old Karlo with his bourgeois values never was but in his dreams.
Larry
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