Processing one day at my university, studying part-time as a mature student who is neurodiverse.
Please note that these photographs are intended to display my personal experience, personified through the figure in the photographs. The texts confirm the intention for the viewer. These are not intended as any criticism of anyone or any organisation.
I can only elicit praise for the support and encouragement I have received here. Navigating a new environment for anyone as a new student is not only exciting, but is a choice and within that choice I was grateful to have been given the opportunity. I could remove past educational memories that are now quite antiquated compared to the approaches now. I sound old but the reality is in the responses I elicit when moment present that trigger my default mechanisms to manage.
Using photography to explore these responses has been my way of managing my triggers and emotions.
AOP Student Awards 2021 Finalists
I decided to enter the awards, especially in the ‘People’ category, as I felt there was a need to express my perception and to give it credence as a valid presentation of what a day might look like for a disabled person like myself.
The narrative of the images followed a theme of viewpoints (that I have now established as a character all its own – Pov) that connect me to my environment as a buffer to enable a time frame to exist between myself and that environment.
Exploration of Life as a Neurodiverse Creative 