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richard downes

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6 June 2012

good point about the need for disability culture, interaction, participation, etc.

I recently attended the South Banks' Festival of The World.

there was a section called choices and rights. it reflected on disabled people's arts and culture and our history of struggle.

I was pleased to see it. Pleased to see our history reflected but felt somewhat offended that we were separate, fenced off, not included in the same way.

Would the experience have been as powerful if we were just merged into an ambivalent lump of art?

I think its a difficult thing to come down on one side or the other.

richard downes

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6 June 2012

Perturbed a Witness was

The Day

I saw God

In a crack in the pavement

Perturbed the Witness was

The Day

I saw Dad

Walk past us both. Dead.

From time to time i stop and talk to a Jehovah's Witness - a black guy with a round smiley face and generally positive demeanour. He knows from occasions like this that whilst i stop and talk i do not believe - even when i see. Your reference to a crack in the pavement reminded me of this.

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