Excerpt from: MLive (click for full article)
Huffington Post has brought an ArtPrize artist’s work to the wider world, much as ArtPrize 2012 gave photographer Robert Andy Coombs the platform to explore physical disabilities and sexuality.
Coombs’ blog “The Stuff No One Talks About” appeared Wednesday on Huffington Post Arts & Culture page online.
In Coombs case, the stuff not discussed is the fact that people with disabilities are unusual. Coombs knows this first hand after he was disabled in a gymnastics accident in 2009 that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down.
His Huffington Post blog, the second of three, begins:
“I can't really blame people for the way they react to me sometimes. I know people are curious. I can understand how it could be a little jarring to be dancing in a club and then turn to see someone in a wheelchair. Before my accident, I can't say that I wouldn't have felt the exact same way.”
But people with disabilities also have the same needs, which was the subject of his ArtPrize 2012 prize-winning photography series.
“Despite being disabled, we are still human and have sexual needs and desires,” he said.
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