Artist Statement
Emily Sara is a queer, disabled, artist, designer, writer, and 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 the titanium and aluminum structures that make up her body.
Her materials are often hybridized, reflecting the non-linearity of disabled and neurodivergent bodyminds. These include fractured cartoons, colors pulled from the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC), 3D-printed stim toys, mobility aids, references to safe foods, and other medical detritus. Through these forms, she explores concepts related to trauma, gravity, grief, ableism, illness, and the absurdity of neurotypical rules.
Her materials are often hybridized, reflecting the non-linearity of disabled and neurodivergent bodyminds. These include fractured cartoons, colors pulled from the Medical Industrial Complex (MIC), 3D-printed stim toys, mobility aids, references to safe foods, and other medical detritus. Through these forms, she explores concepts related to trauma, gravity, grief, ableism, illness, and the absurdity of neurotypical rules.