\u201cDo You Understand\u201d is an experiential art piece which seeks\nto promote empathy and discussion around invisible illnesses such as arthritis.\nChronic illnesses, such as rheumatoid arthritis, often have \u201cinvisible\u201d\nsymptoms which can appear and just as easily disappear from day to day. Society\noften works to appropriately address only visible illnesses\u2014individuals whose sickness\nis visible. This creates misunderstanding toward individuals who struggle with\ninvisible illnesses. They can oftentimes feel like they cannot communicate with\nable-bodied individuals\u2014like their voice is not heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The setup of \u201cDo You Understand\u201d includes a large\nfloor-to-ceiling, circular maze. The Maze walls are made of semi-opaque, frosted\nglass. This glass materiality seeks to represent how fragile individuals with chronic\nillnesses such as arthritis can feel when they experience pain invisible to\nothers. In addition to floor-to-ceiling glass walls are speakers throughout the\nmaze. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
An individual is guided into the center of a maze, blindfolded. When given permission, the participant can take off their blindfold and attempt to navigate their way out of the maze. Around the maze are people who believe they are helping the participant by guiding them through the maze using their voice. They are able to see a faux visual of the location of the participant within the maze moving about. The participant can hear the people outside the maze trying to help; however, the participant is unable to respond. The individuals around the outter edge of the maze are unaware of this and continue trying to help the participant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cDo You Understand\u201d is an experiential art piece which seeks to promote empathy and discussion around invisible illnesses such as arthritis. Chronic illnesses, such as rheumatoid arthritis, often have \u201cinvisible\u201d symptoms which can appear and just as easily disappear from day to day. Society often works to appropriately address only visible illnesses\u2014individuals whose sickness is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[98,257,244],"class_list":{"0":"post-2283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-featured","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-artconjecture","10":"tag-designconjecture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2287,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions\/2287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}