Sublime

Disability is too interesting to have to decide between pure practicality and raw beauty. Misfit states beg for art and engineering and design. It was design that allowed me to insist on a world that included ordinary stuff that works, but also stuff that sings. Utility and significance, solutions and questions, held open.

We were invited to design an object that fully captured all the energy of our imagination—something between a tool and a piece of architecture that roundly rejected the standard dimensions on which the built world is generally arrayed, and proposed instead a way for Amanda’s body and the room to meet each other differently.