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Feingold Gallery: Hidden Disabilities

Feingold Gallery:
Hidden Disabilities

 

 

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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Hidden disabilities comments

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 9:38am.

(posted for a friend)

Reality


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Hidden disability comment

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 10:26am.
Maybe hard to get one's head around, but important. Perfection is a fantasy. We all have both strengths and weaknesses, and we'd all be better off acknowledging both, in others as well as ourselves.
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Hidden disabilities—the

Submitted by LauraC on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 4:08pm.
Hidden disabilities—the ability of people to carry on appearances while being tormented inside. Appearances can be deceiving.
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Everyone is disabled in some

Submitted by Riki on Fri, 10/17/2008 - 9:30pm.
Everyone is disabled in some way.
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Mental and emotional

Submitted by ysilverman on Sat, 10/18/2008 - 9:02am.
Mental and emotional disabilities can feel just as disfiguring for the bearer as physical. (And the hard part can be, nobody even knows they're there.)
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I liked this one a lot,

Submitted by Paige Safyer on Sun, 10/19/2008 - 5:58pm.
I liked this one a lot, because I think physical disabilities are often seen as so much worse because one can't hide them.  This really drives the point home that no one is perfect, and even the idea of perfection is a myth.
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The breaking point

Submitted by kmanning on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 8:16am.
The bridge here, which seems to be holding up the man and the woman, does not seem structurally sound. At any moment it will break and they will fall, and while we may expect that the man could fall, it would be much more shocking for the woman to suddenly fall. It is the same weak bridge holding up both mental and physical disabilities.
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Disability cannot be seen or

Submitted by mstokes on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:33am.
Disability cannot be seen or judged from the outside or by another; that which is inside and hidden can be equally disabling.  
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I am not sure how I feel

Submitted by akerle on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 10:38am.
I am not sure how I feel about this image. I don't disagree with the concept that is presented here but I feel that the beautiful perfect woman over simplifies the situation. Or at least- makes me  think that she is ugly inside and that "ugliness" is not only skin deep. Is this the right kind of message or even an accurate one?
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Who is the more disabled?

Submitted by ryan g on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 12:32pm.
Who is the more disabled?  On the inside or the outside?  Which is greater?  
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Different kind of

Submitted by MartinBayer on Mon, 10/20/2008 - 3:12pm.
Different kind of disability, good point but it is exploiting a weakness in language. 
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