Irusta M. Soledad
Professor Saubidet Stella
Language and written expression IV
13 July 2013
A different flight
During life people face different kinds of obstacles which
lead them to make efforts to solve them. Although if we consider the admirable
way in which people with disabilities conquer everyday problems, as well as everyday
life, we would be completely surprised. Their special characteristics cause a
striking impact in the rest of the people who more than once consider and treat
them as if they were not humans. Thus, this demonstrates they are not
comprehended or understood properly. Despite discrimination, nothing can
prohibit them to express their feelings, sensations, dreams, imagination and
soul manifestation. Therefore arts become to disability people a medium to conquer
life, promote their inclusion in society and being comprehended as equal
humans.
Arts include disabled people in performance and
artworks where the primary goal is more than an artistic or esthetic achievement.
Arts provide an opportunity to show themselves beyond any limitation as well as
discovering their lives worth, which indeed increases their self worth feeling.
That is to say people with disabilities often think they are incapable of doing
something interesting however, providing them different opportunities to do so;
they are capable of renouncing to this negative idea and confront any prejudice.
Nevertheless debility people if being
accompanied and supported constantly find ways to transform themselves into the
opposite of everybody ´s views about them, no matter the kind of disability
they suffered. In that way their identity is spread to a wide audience which at
the same time demands even greater effort from them.
Disability people require some amount of help and accommodation
from others to find themselves in a productive artistic environment. Most of
the people who collaborate are close relatives who at the same time admire and
congratulate their efforts. However, some people do not move from an esthetic
perspective view of art which does not enable them to enjoy beauty in a more
complex and profound sense. Therefore they consider disability people´s
performance a humiliating and ridiculous way to produce displeasure. Thus they abstain of discovering desires,
wishes, dreams, even the unseen aspects of the people they love most. Although they
are supposed to give help and support, instead they do not contemplate arts possibility
of social inclusion neither believe arts could lead to conquer the unexpected.
It is sometimes difficult to believe these special
people were able to innovate and captivate the entire world because of their
outstanding productions but this is definitely truth. All over history different disability people
have showed the world that despite their limitations, they were able to succeed
in life through art development. One of
the greatest classic music authors Beethoven who has changed music´s paradigm, had
the ability to compose after losing his hearing. Different attempts were made
to help him feel the sound vibrations he played after his total loss of hearing
though he continued composing. It is not
necessary to change arts paradigm but to enrich it, is more than enough. There
are different organizations (Betania) that promote art development with
disability people and ensure arts result a good therapy that allows them to confront
any impediment of life, feel part of a society and principally being
comprehended as equals.
We conclude that despite a few considerations of arts as
a humiliating and ridiculous way to expose disability people, arts pursue more
than an esthetic goal that contributes to express their most profound feelings leading
them to conquer life, promote their inclusion and being comprehended as human
equals.
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