The Universe is a Single Bed by Megan Williams
Collage on paper
297 x 210 mm
2024
$200 unframed, $250 framed
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Megan Williams
Contact SellerCollage on paper
297 x 210 mm
2024
$200 unframed, $250 framed
Megan Williams
Contact SellerMegan Williams is a bed-based artist and full-time sick person. Her work explores the embodied realties of her life with severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and the conceptual possibilities of collage as inherently disabled medium. Working across collage, print, and textiles,...
Read moreIn these works, I am exploring the way my bodymind changes my relationship to the world – through crip time and crip space. Being mostly bedbound, it often feels I exist in a space outside of the world. My life is a kind of permanent liminal space, a sort of unreality. Time too feels altered, no longer linear. I exist in a permanent state of waiting; for the end of a flare, a doctors appointment, a cure.
I consider collage itself to be a kind of disabled medium: unmaking and remaking, transformation, adaption, limitation, unexpected outcomes. I am inspired and emboldened by radical disability theory and my own search for disabled joy.