Art
JOHN R. KILLACKY
- Item Number
- 116
- Opening Bid
- 275 USD
Item Description
"Sixteen years ago, I was paralyzed from the neck down from complications from spinal surgery. Today, I remain paraplegic and ambulate with a cane. Throughout my (ongoing) rehabilitation process I called upon my artistic self to cope with the enormity of the physical and emotional toll. Four disability-related films have been screened world-wide, essays and opinion pieces published in various magazines and newspapers, and I keynoted disability conferences throughout the country. My writing has also been featured in the Helen Keller Foundation's "Reading Lips and Other Ways to Overcome a Disability" and in the Lambda award-winning "Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories" that I co-edited.
For the 30/30 print project, I chose excerpts from three narratives and processed them through the Wordle website (www.wordle.net/create) generating word clouds from my text. All random, and yet precise - just like life, just like my disability. My collaborator, the marvelous and very generous Gregg Blasdel, then printed the image."
Donated By:
John R. Killacky
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