My cast glass piece, “The Veil That Has No Name,” is featured on the postcard for a Labor Day weekend exhibit with the theme Bearing Witness. This piece bears witness to the invisible disabilities of people with brain injuries and, more broadly, mental and emotional suffering that goes unseen.
I underwent a craniotomy to repair a ruptured brain aneurysm in November 2015, and the changes in my cognition are a theme underlying much of my art. Like others with brain injuries, I struggle to cope not only with these changes but with the veil of perception: Because I appear “normal,” people tend to scoff at the disability I attempt to describe. They think it’s “all in my head.” It is.
The Veil That Has No Name
