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As part of our #MetAccess program, every month we invite Disabled and Deaf artists to respond to works in The Met's collection that spark their curiosity or inspiration.
This month, Panteha Abareshi shares her thoughts on this series of four studies done by Rodin:
This month, Panteha Abareshi shares her thoughts on this series of four studies done by Rodin:
"The idealized corporeal form is whole, unblemished and unbroken, and this ideal creates an othering space in which the sick and/or disabled body must exist, as the sick/disabled body is reduced to only its most malfunctioning parts." 1/5
"I am incessantly thinking about the body as assemblage, often haphazard and always imperfect. I have never had the ability to examine my body as a whole or to find any unity between its disjointed parts." 2/5
