metallurgy.2

aluminum.

7’ 3” x 1.5’ , 7’ x 1’ 5” 5’3” x 2’

2021.


This work explores the experience of language processing as someone on the autism spectrum and the prejudice involved with having an Appalachian dialect. Imposing metal structures are posed with harsh, hostile lighting. Using letters as their form, rather than for function, they become obscured architecture, illegible, much like the experience of dealing with language processing obstacles. Further, using metal, a cold, man-made, harsh material, the letters become hostile and imposing to the viewer, conveying the difficult and anxious nature of having not only a prejudice against accent and dialect, but having the obstacle of spectrum-related language issues compounded by that.