"Good morning from the radically vulnerable work of disabled artist - Ashley Bradley Thomas - @crudecanvases - who shows herself; part of a community of artists and people living with disabilities in the art world and world.

The paraphernalia, prosthetics, mechanisms, abjectness and everyday life of an artist.

Should be in a biennial.  Is also a textile artist.

Her sense of time and work and process is its own subject.

An art inherently critical of a Neo-liberal idea of efficiency and "good" time management, internal stability and our entrepreneurship of the stand-alone self.  An artist - communities of disabled artists - confronting the state.  Voluntary self-surveillance and disclosure to create an undertow on narratives of continuity.  

Asserting restriction of freedom as an unstable but powerful freedom.

Deepening the human capacity for an empathy for isolation and solitude outside or alongside of our otherwise cooperative super networked world.  A redefinition of the idea of competition.  All of which has its own deep-content of resistance.

And an orchard-like beauty all its own."