See For Yourself: Collaboration with Carmen Papalia
In early 2015 Carmen Papalia asked John Muse to contribute a text to his project See For Yourself, a new work commissioned by Arts & Disability Ireland for Marking Blind,an exhibition curated by Amanda Cachia. Muse was prompted to verbally “show” Carmen Théodore Géricaultt’s 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa, describing the painting “subjectively, in [your] own […]
Three Works: Carmen Papalia in Collaboration with John Muse
Muse provided three brief descriptions of artworks to Carmen Papalia, who used them to create an artwork of his own. Muse first selected three works—two from the Philadelphia Museum of Art and one from a private gallery—briefly described each, and then sent these descriptions to Papalia, a visually impaired artist whose work explicitly addresses disability, […]