- Communication through the arts -
In my Inclusive Arts Practice journey, I eager to explore the power of arts more than a therapeutic tool, but art-making process, in which autistic people unleash their potentials to make high-quality artwork telling their stories, showing their hidden world, expressing their emotions, and for me to understand how collaborative arts create meanings.
My research question “How can inclusive art-making processes support the communication between autistic and non-autistic artists?" enabled me to collaborate with autistic artists, explore how different materials can support us to exchange ideas, convey our dialogues, thoughts, and feelings. The project discovered which their art medium or the combination of art form preferences were during their collaborative art practice.
From April to May 2021, I conducted 6 online workshops via Zoom with a non-verbal autistic artist and two social supporters in which we had the opportunity of building artistic dialogues through experiments with watercolour, mark making, mosaic, and collaborative digital drawing. We also discovered different kinds of paper including recycled paper, watercolour paper, and Dó paper that opened up my perspectives on the relationship between us and materials.
I also became more aware of the fact that materials can speak when words fail.
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