My Positionality Statement (in progress)

This piece is three fractures. The first is overlaid on an oversteeped teabag, abandoned while I was working. The second is overlaid on a blurry image of a bloody facial scar after a tonic clonic seizure. After this seizure, I could not speak with verbal words for about 2 weeks, and it was extremely painful to move my mouth. The third is overlaid on a scrap piece of watercolor- a medium I have just begun exploring the possibilities of.

This is not finished or quite accessible (nothing is the right size- no audio descriptions, etc), but it is in progress. Additionally, it is important to note, as does Blumenfield-Jones, that though I have written and recorded a voice-over, that “words are not the heart of the work but, rather, the feelings (bodily/emotional/sensory/intuitive/aesthetic) that lead me, feelings that are non-verbal and yet have form” (2016, p. 324). The brushes on the page, the tones of the steeped teabag, and the feelings induced by the sounds of my voice could perhaps induce more guidance as to my positionality than the narrated or written words.