Visual Arts
Visual arts encompasses creative practices that primarily communicate through visual media, including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and digital art. These disciplines allow artists to explore complex ideas, emotions, and experiences through form, color, composition, and spatial arrangement. Visual arts practice can serve both aesthetic and communicative purposes, often intersecting with social commentary, personal expression, and documentary practice.
Dyslexia Visualization in Contemporary Practice
Contemporary artist Kim Percy has developed a body of work exploring dyslexia through artistic practice. Rather than treating dyslexia as a deficit to be hidden, Percy’s work visualizes the cognitive and perceptual differences associated with the condition, transforming neurological experience into visual form. This approach positions artistic practice as a means of making invisible neurological processes visible and tangible to audiences unfamiliar with dyslexic experience.
Percy’s visualization methods employ various visual strategies to communicate dyslexic perception, including distortion of text, manipulation of spatial relationships, and exploration of how letters and words appear when processed differently. Through this work, visual arts functions as both a personal investigation and a form of public education, challenging assumptions about literacy and cognition while validating alternative ways of processing visual information.