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Unlearning The Ableist Way of Depicting Images:
“A Study On Unlearning The Ableist Way of Depicting Images” is a proccess of unlearning how to create abled passing visual artworks while being a person with less than 10% vision. This project is a series of 20 marker drawings where Lykourgos is trying to go over the boundaries of the sighted drawing he have been taught through his studies in art institutions. His attempt is to develop images and worlds the way he sees and understands them and not the way things “should be seen”.
In this study Porfyris is trying to depict the almost magical fluid moment of observing a landscape or cityscape without the help, of what he calls semiotics of vision*. In this moment of fluidity his vision doesn’t conform to boundaries of gender, object or human, natural or artificial. Some examples are: a bus stop that looks like the inside of a spaceship, a person that seems like melting into a building, a cigarette fire imitating the moon light and more.
In “A Study On Unlearning The Ableist Way of Depicting Images” Porfyris doesn't just try to show his subjective perspective but proposes an alternative way of seeing and understanding the world.
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