Bonnie Ogilvie
Teens Self-Portrait #1
2023 | silk, handprints and digital scans | 200 × 130 cm
For this self-portrait, Bonnie revisited her own past. She often had to take special tests for her dyslexia, and she felt uncomfortable because she couldn’t read and write as well as others. She turns that around in her work. She used to write in her diaries using a script that she had created for herself and that only she could read. She alternates that script with quotes from her old dyslexia tests.
Her work shows what it’s like for someone not to be able to read or understand something very well. She hopes her work will initiate change in the school system so that other children don’t have to feel insecure.
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