KNEE BRACE PRESS

A place for stories about chronic illness, disability, mental health, and neurodivergence.

Art & Photography

  • A white woman poses for the camera, crouching. She wears a lilac dress and earings and dark purple lipstick and is surrounded by lilac furnature.

    In this house still

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    Karlen Lambert enjoys working with surrealism and color in her photography and other works. She is an avid reader, writer, purple enthusiast and music lover.

  • A white woman lays on the ground with her eyes closed. She is covered in turquoise petals. The fabric she lays on is also turquoise and covered in flowers.

    Down with me in the ditch

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    Karlen Lambert is a writer and an artist, currently studying for a BFA in 3D art at UNCC. Her work explores grief and neurodivergent presentation.

  • A person with shoulder-length black hair. He is hiding behind a small bunch of white flowers.
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    T.C. Long has also recorded an audio version of this piece, both to increase accessibility and to lend additional humanity and dimensionality to disabled folks in media.

  • An ornate couch with royal blue cushion, a gold back, and wood at the bottom, all supported by four wheels.

    Mobile Reading Couch

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    Why can’t assistive devices be beautiful? By Janis Butler Holm.

  • An art piece that blurs a lot of colors together.

    Numb

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    Numb, by Kerri Curtis, refers to feeling of wanting to be numb after having too much outside stimulation and everything feels like it’s too loud, too bright, too much. Mix in anxiety, which can be equally tiring, and this piece is the safe cocoon to hide away in.

  • The image is all in black, white, and gray and is divided into three sections. The first shows text reading, "An almost invisible cause. Static moving. Patterns of sounds, invisibly visual." There is a dark figure at the bottom. The second image shows the words, "HYPER ACOUSTIC" built out of blocks. The image is very busy with a lot of cut out shapes in the background. The last image is mostly text, but the words keep getting cut off. There is also an arrow pointing down.

    Layers of Hyper Acoustic Pain

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    Layers of Hyper Acoustic Pain by Luca M Damiani uses the artist’s writing, artworks, and photography based on his own disability, showing layered moments of invisible sensory disorder.

  • Neurodivergent

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    Author Julián Esteban Torres López wrote this piece, Neurodivergent, intending it to be an auditory experience. Please feel free to listen to the audio below while reading along to the words below.