boost: Two dyslexic people creating art about art and dyslexia

An Index of Natural and Artificial Reds [excerpt] by Christine Hume, Eastern Michigan University

Disability Studies Quarterly Vol 39, No 4 (2019)
https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/6972/5472

Exquisite meditation by dyslexic writer on reading and memory: she’s assigns a rainbow of different red colors with the concept of "reading." Content note: description of child sexual assault not included in excerpt

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Described photos and interview with dyslexic and autistic UK artist Jon Adams

[one photo shows "The Emergency Alphabet" collage: A "break in case of fire box" contains a tight five-by-five grid of Scrabble tiles in alphabetical order, with the letter U down and outside the grid. A label underneath the box reads: ‘In case of imposed literacy only’]

From the interview with Emma Robdale in Disability Arts Online:

However, when first displaying ‘Emergency Alphabet’ he was relatively unknown, and described feeling like a ‘fly on the wall’, when listening to his own work being discussed, “Oh the ‘U’ is missing!… does he mean ‘you’, ‘me’, or, the ‘artist himself’?” From this initial eavesdropped feedback he adapted much of his later work; wanting it to be less direct. He realized that the ambiguity meant other people could “see themselves in it, and shrink-wrap a meaning of their own upon my work!” Desiring not to give definitive answers, but to make people question structures within society.

https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/theres-an-emergency-alphabet-but-u-have-been-left-out-neurodivergent-artist-speaks-up/