My colleagues at Bob Knight Photo took this photograph. I worked with their graduation crews across Florida during college. At my own graduation, I sat backstage with people I knew.
Graduation · May 2005
Two weeks before this photograph, another driver pulled out in front of me as I was returning from the dollhouse supply store. I braked but hit their car. I finished Glass Houses while recovering from surgery and using a wheelchair, moving the chair backwards to position the 4×5 camera. The BFA show opened on schedule.
This experience began my disability advocacy. Years later, at thirty-nine, my autism and ADHD diagnoses gave me another way to understand the work. The questions of race, class, and access in Glass Houses were connected to patterns I had noticed long before I could explain them.