Artist Statement
Emily Sara (she/her) is a queer, disabled, neurodivergent, artist, designer, writer, and alt educator. Her practice engages with disabled history and its contemporary anxieties, focusing on accessibility, disability aesthetics, and stim aesthetics. She employs a neurodivergent narrative, working with fragmented mediums to explore the tension between organic degradation and titanium or aluminum structures that make up her body.
Her materials are often hybridized, reflecting the non-linear logic of disabled and neurodivergent bodyminds. These include fractured cartoons, colors drawn from the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC), 3D-printed stim toys, mobility aids, references to safe foods, and other medical detritus. Always fluctuating as her body rapidly changes. Through these forms, she explores concepts related to trauma, gravity, ableism, illness, and the absurdity of neurotypical rules.
Her materials are often hybridized, reflecting the non-linear logic of disabled and neurodivergent bodyminds. These include fractured cartoons, colors drawn from the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC), 3D-printed stim toys, mobility aids, references to safe foods, and other medical detritus. Always fluctuating as her body rapidly changes. Through these forms, she explores concepts related to trauma, gravity, ableism, illness, and the absurdity of neurotypical rules.