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Feingold Gallery: A Disabled Doctorate Student Comes Out

Feingold Gallery:
A Disabled Doctorate Student Comes Out

 

 

The design of this gallery is aimed at encouraging conversation involving both immediate and reflective thought, individual and collective. Rather than starting by reading comments of others, please first put your own immediate thoughts in the on-line forum below. This way, we'll all be able to see how much similarity and difference there is in our initial reactions and interpretations of the images. Then go back to see what others have said about this image and add whatever new thoughts you have as a result of that. More general thoughts about the collection of images and/or this exhibit as a whole are welcome in the on-line forum on the exhibit home page.

 


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Comes out comment

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 9:41am.

(posted for a friend)

Me locked all up inside.


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disabled student comment

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 10:30am.
Very glad he did come out. Hope he can feel the appreciation for who he is, what's he's done. And that that, in turn, makes him feel better about himself.
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I’m drawn to the picture

Submitted by LauraC on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 4:11pm.
I’m drawn to the picture of the disfigured face. I think it represents an internal feeling of ugliness and dissatisfaction. Being worn down mentally by oneself. One’s own enemy.
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first thought was

Submitted by merry2e on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 7:07pm.
first thought was frankenstein and feeling misunderstood. then i wanted to know what was on the other side of the door.
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But is he really coming out?

Submitted by ysilverman on Sat, 10/18/2008 - 8:48am.
But is he really coming out? I just see a photo on the door. Where is he?
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More doors are shut to this

Submitted by Sophie F on Sun, 10/19/2008 - 9:03pm.
More doors are shut to this person than open, in his perception. There is a sense of isolation and self-loathing.
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Isolation

Submitted by kmanning on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 7:41am.
Like the "tortured student soul" imagine, the barren door and photo represent an isolation from the world and from other people. He feels he is working towards his goal alone, as a result of being different, and being recognized as such.
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This is ugly, more like the

Submitted by akerle on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:12am.
This is ugly, more like the unleashing of a monster than the freedom to be oneself. Is this the fear of the artist or the observer?
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Release?

Submitted by mstokes on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:16am.
The disabled doctoral student's coming out--if the door can indeed open--seems an equally troubling and disturbing vision as the student's staying locked up.  But perhaps that vision, which remains closed off to the viewer, is mistaken--and the open door would offer release from the pain.  
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My interpretation:  Someone

Submitted by ryan g on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 12:23pm.
My interpretation:  Someone is not happy about the work they are doing.  It seems they are doing it to please someone else.  Perhaps it makes them feel ugly. 
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I've heard of students who

Submitted by Ljones on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 2:45pm.
I've heard of students who refer to themselves as "lab rats" and who have stayed in their building for more than 48 hours at a time... I can only imagine that after years of that, one could start to feel ugly. Is it scary that this doesn't deter me from further schooling?
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I think the student dislikes

Submitted by MartinBayer on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 3:01pm.
I think the student dislikes himself or his work, perhaps that is why it is hidden behind the cellar door?
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Deep from within his world of isolation

Submitted by sbs (not verified) on Mon, 11/03/2008 - 3:53pm.

The way I see it.

Deep from within his world of isolation, he is peering out of his protective self imposed jail cell. As do most students of extreme isolation, he constantly invalidating then revalidating his environment to keep his foundation intact. I don't think he's coming out either, his complacency holds him there.

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