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johngreenhateblog:

Judith Scott, a deaf-mute artist with Down’s Syndrome, photographed with two pieces of her work. Using yarn, thread, fabric, and other fiber pieces, Scott wound and enveloped the fibers in and around structures to create unique shapes in her work, intricately expressing form and movement. 

Many of Scott’s works illustrated or represented her experiences with living in an institution for intellectually disabled people for 35 years, as well as her life, post-institution, as a disabled woman and twin to an abled woman.

“The work of Judith Scott challenges the absolute rupture between mental disability and art and applies critical pressure on intelligence as the standard for identifying artists.” - Tobin Siebers, Disability Aesthetics.

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