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As it turns out, I did not drive to AIPD yesterday. This is due to the fact that I am a lazy bastard. Yay!
I'll pull through this finals crap. I have just one more week....
Good news is that I've been devoting a lot of time to my Intermediate Drawing final, and it's turning out well. I chose the Oregon care home issue after all, because Kat reminded me that I feel very strongly about disability. Reading about the abuse of developmentally disabled residents struck a chord in me: This is something I want to illustrate, show my peers and teachers that it should not be ignored.
These cases are beyond heinous. I just read this one: Sex abuse injures care home resident.
It's fucking beyond me how that woman (Marsha Chapman) could have thought the sounds coming from her client's room at 3:00 in the morning were of her client "playing."
Chapman's 18-year-old son violently sexually abused their client, a 37-year-old, wheelchair-bound woman with cerebral palsy.
The more I read about these cases, the more appalled I am. But that goes without saying.
This is the main article my final is based on: How Oregon fails disabled adults.
The article mentions that "one foster home worker buckled an electric dog collar around the neck of an autistic man, zapping him repeatedly to control him."
This is one of the cases I've drawn on my final. I've also drawn the case of Natasha Thomas, who died from neglect in 2005. She had an IQ of 48. The photograph of her mother's hands cradling the angel picture frame is also on my final drawing.
Whew, bedtime. I'm going to get cracking on my final in Animation....
I'll pull through this finals crap. I have just one more week....
Good news is that I've been devoting a lot of time to my Intermediate Drawing final, and it's turning out well. I chose the Oregon care home issue after all, because Kat reminded me that I feel very strongly about disability. Reading about the abuse of developmentally disabled residents struck a chord in me: This is something I want to illustrate, show my peers and teachers that it should not be ignored.
These cases are beyond heinous. I just read this one: Sex abuse injures care home resident.
It's fucking beyond me how that woman (Marsha Chapman) could have thought the sounds coming from her client's room at 3:00 in the morning were of her client "playing."
Chapman's 18-year-old son violently sexually abused their client, a 37-year-old, wheelchair-bound woman with cerebral palsy.
The more I read about these cases, the more appalled I am. But that goes without saying.
This is the main article my final is based on: How Oregon fails disabled adults.
The article mentions that "one foster home worker buckled an electric dog collar around the neck of an autistic man, zapping him repeatedly to control him."
This is one of the cases I've drawn on my final. I've also drawn the case of Natasha Thomas, who died from neglect in 2005. She had an IQ of 48. The photograph of her mother's hands cradling the angel picture frame is also on my final drawing.
Whew, bedtime. I'm going to get cracking on my final in Animation....
