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 visual artists have increasingly engaged with neurodiversity as a subject of artistic inquiry. Kim Percy’s work exemplifies this practice, using visual media to represent the lived experience of dyslexia. Rather than depicting dyslexia as a clinical condition, Percy’s artistic approach translates the perceptual and cognitive aspects of dyslexic reading into visual form, creating works that communicate the distinctive ways dyslexic individuals process text and information. This practice situates artistic research within broader conversations about representation, accessibility, and neurodiversity awareness.
Through this work, visual arts demonstrates its capacity to make internal cognitive experiences externally visible, offering both a documentary and interpretive function. By visualizing conditions often described only through clinical or educational frameworks, artists like Percy expand public understanding of neurodiversity while simultaneously advancing visual arts as a medium for exploring human difference and perception.