Day 61

For my WSU senior art show, I did a
project about Kelton's creativity and uniqueness:

This show examined conformity through the repetition of Einstein, who is considered the ideal autist. Even though uniqueness is valued, people are expected to conform to a certain extent while our society focuses on people’s disabilities instead of emphasizing their abilities and possible contributions. Kelton only accepts one-of-a-kind key chains and duplicates are put into a discard bag in the garage. Of course this is only a metaphor, but if society worked in the same way, conformity would be discouraged and the unique perspective and characteristics of people with autism would be valued instead of discarded into the inferior category of our society. According to Einstein, “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” Everyone has a piece of Einstein in their creative self; it just takes time and encouragement to find it.