Kevin Connolly was born with no legs. He is three-feet one-inch tall and is a film student at Montana State University. He has a new art show called The Rolling Exhibition featuring photographs he’s taken of people staring down at him as he rolled around on his skateboard.
Connolly feels he’s just as able-bodied as anyone. But he never quite adjusted to people’s stares. . . On a European trip last year he got tired of it. In what he admits to being a passive-aggressive response, Connolly looked the other way, held his camera at hip-level, and snapped a starer’s photo. . . . “I wanted to stare back at that guy, to let him know that, ‘Yeah, I catch you looking,'” he says. “And the way I did that was with my camera.” . . . Afterward when Connolly looked at the photo, blurred from both the movement of the camera and the movement of the man, he was surprised to find he liked what he saw. And the seed was planted for a major creative project.
This Christian Science Monitor story is probably the best one we’ve seen on Kevin and his art project. Check it out.
[Link: Christian Science Monitor and The Rolling Exhitibition]
