My cast glass piece, \u201cThe Veil That Has No Name,\u201d 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.
\nI 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 \u201cnormal,\u201d people tend to scoff at the disability I attempt to describe. They think it\u2019s \u201call in my head.\u201d It is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My cast glass piece, \u201cThe Veil That Has No Name,\u201d 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… Continue reading The Veil That Has No Name<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaschnellinger.com\/fusedlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaschnellinger.com\/fusedlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaschnellinger.com\/fusedlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaschnellinger.com\/fusedlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaschnellinger.com\/fusedlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lisaschnellinger.com\/fusedlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1205,"href":"https:\/\/lisaschnellinger.com\/fusedlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/1205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaschnellinger.com\/fusedlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisaschnellinger.com\/fusedlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaschnellinger.com\/fusedlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisaschnellinger.com\/fusedlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}