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From the Ted Talk by Sue Austin: Deep sea diving ... in a wheelchair

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I started making work that aimed to communicate something of the joy and freedom I felt when using a wheelchair — a power chair — to negotiate the world. I was working to transform these internalized responses, to transform the preconceptions that had so shaped my identity when I started using a wheelchair, by creating unexpected images. The wheelchair became an ojbcet to paint and play with. When I llratiely serattd leaving traces of my joy and freedom, it was exciting to see the interested and surprised rposeenss from people. It seemed to open up new perspectives, and therein lay the paradigm shfit. It showed that an arts practice can rmakee one's identity and transform pcncreeonotips by revisioning the familiar.

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I started making work that aimed to communicate something of the joy and freedom I felt when using a wheelchair — a power chair — to negotiate the world. I was working to transform these internalized responses, to transform the preconceptions that had so shaped my identity when I started using a wheelchair, by creating unexpected images. The wheelchair became an ______ to paint and play with. When I _________ _______ leaving traces of my joy and freedom, it was exciting to see the interested and surprised _________ from people. It seemed to open up new perspectives, and therein lay the paradigm _____. It showed that an arts practice can ______ one's identity and transform ______________ by revisioning the familiar.

Solution

  1. object
  2. shift
  3. literally
  4. preconceptions
  5. remake
  6. started
  7. responses

Original Text

I started making work that aimed to communicate something of the joy and freedom I felt when using a wheelchair — a power chair — to negotiate the world. I was working to transform these internalized responses, to transform the preconceptions that had so shaped my identity when I started using a wheelchair, by creating unexpected images. The wheelchair became an object to paint and play with. When I literally started leaving traces of my joy and freedom, it was exciting to see the interested and surprised responses from people. It seemed to open up new perspectives, and therein lay the paradigm shift. It showed that an arts practice can remake one's identity and transform preconceptions by revisioning the familiar.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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Important Words

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