Noli Kat
Noli Kat is a sick artist. She struggles with her (mental and physical) health and was housebound and mostly bed-based until recently due to ME/CFS. Frameworks that inspire her are: Soulmaking Dharma, non-violent communication and disability justice. Her work aims to create trauma-informed, life-affirming cultures in which people feel able to survive and belong. She lives in dreamscapes, cyberspace and the Netherlands.
The photographs were taken when she was largely bed-based and housebound. In order to survive, she turned to self-expression and started taking self-portraits and texts. Due to the illness and Covid-19, most of the shots were taken by her mother. At this time it was also difficult to stand, sit, or hold a pose for longer. The images therefore had to be taken quickly and with enough pauses before, in between and after – the reality of a sick, bed-based person trying to do photography.
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Does This Help Distract from the Fact That I Am a Young Person Using a Mobility Scooter?
From the photo series “Self-Portraits”
2021–2022
Why I Sometimes Hate Mainstream Therapy [And Their Kleenex Boxes]
From the photo series “Self-Portraits”
2021–2022
Bedbound
From the photo series “Self-Portraits”
2021–2022
Limitations Requires Creativity, Creativity Requires Limitations: Doodlebedsheet
From the photo series “Self-Portraits”
2021–2022
Imagination
From the photo series “Self-Portraits”
2021–2022
Stircrazy
From the photo series “Self-Portraits”
2021–2022