Bright Shadows

Abstract

This graduate project explores the relationship between the body, disability, and printmaking, using the body as both a subject and a matrix for artistic expression. It examines how the body's presence and absence can be visually and physically recorded through tactile processes. By engaging with concepts such as embodiment, sensory perception, and haptic visuality, the research challenges conventional representations of the disabled body. The project investigates how body printing can capture the lived experience of a body that does not conform to normative structures. The impressions left on surfaces serve as traces of movement, memory, and self-perception, transforming personal narratives into tangible forms. By positioning the body as a medium and a subject, this research offers a space for reimagining physicality and difference. It invites a deeper engagement with how bodies, particularly disabled bodies, are perceived, experienced, and understood within social and artistic contexts