[Accessibility_sig] Making A Statement with Sculpture: Access Denied.

James Craig james at cookiecrook.com
Sat May 19 14:27:21 CDT 2007


Making A Statement with Sculpture: Access Denied.
http://www.woostercollective.com/2007/05/making_a_statement_with_sculpture_access.html

Funny enough, there are no alt descriptions on the images.

The first photo depicts a British street scene with a telephone booth
in the foreground. A life-sized yellow sculpture of the standard
handicapped wheelchair icon, about eight inches wide, is partially in
the phone booth with the phone to its ear. The sculpture makes it
obvious that a real wheelchair user would not be able to fit in the
booth. Additional information: The photographer and a friend are
slightly visible in the reflection off the glass of the phone booth,
and a pedestrian across the street appears to have a cane, possibly a
white one.

The second photo depicts the same wheelchair icon sculpture in a
cobblestone courtyard or plaza, possibly on a university campus. A
male passer-by in his mid-twenties contemplates the sculpture, which
is lying on its side, locked in place by a large car barricade which
is protruding upwards through the wheel of the wheelchair. The message
of this sculpture's placement is less obvious.

Cheers.
James



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