"Judith Scott (born 1943), a fifty-five year old woman with Down's Syndrome, has spent the past ten years producing a series of totally non-functional objects which, to us, appear to be works of sculpture, except that the notion of sculpture is far beyond Judith's understanding. As well as being mentally handicapped, Judith cannot hear or speak, and she has little concept of language." Link(via Geisha Asobi)
What leads the commenting Ph.D. to conclude that "the notion of sculpture is far beyond [her] understanding"? The very fact that she creates the sculptures suggests otherwise to me. I don't think intelligence as we know it, or the ability to communicate, is essential. (Source - boing boing)
