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Foundational quote for image generation:

“You don’t have to change anything about you, you’ve got to change the things you do and how you do them.“

This image shows three stages of transformation arranged from left to right on a clean white background. On the left is a caterpillar, detailed with green, yellow, and blue patterns. In the center is a transitional form with green wings beginning to open. On the right is a fully formed butterfly with blue and gold wings. The three forms feel connected, like one life moving through different ways of being.

The transformation does not suggest becoming someone else. It shows the same self adapting into new forms. The title How, Not Who gets to the heart of that idea. What changes is not identity, value, or purpose. What changes is the method, the approach, the way forward. The piece honors adaptation without self-erasure, and shows change as something that can preserve the person while opening a new way to live.

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Foundational quote for image generation:

“He said, ”When you walked into this office, what did you want to do before I gave you the news?”
I said I wanted to be a yoga teacher.
He said, “What’s stopping you?“

This image shows the silhouette of a woman in a yoga pose, balanced on one leg with her hands lifted in front of her. Behind her is a large, translucent pink flower, almost like a lotus, opening outward around her body. The background is warm and soft, filled with peach, rose, and golden tones. The scene feels quiet, calm, and spiritual, with the figure centered inside the flower as if she is being held by it.

The image reflects the moment in Doreen’s quote when a difficult diagnosis is met with a simple question: “What’s stopping you?” She wanted to become a yoga teacher, and that question helped return the possibility to her. The flower suggests growth, renewal, and inner strength, while the yoga pose speaks directly to balance, focus, and embodiment. The image does not show someone being stopped by the news she received. It shows someone still rising, still centered, and still moving toward the life she wanted.

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Foundational quote for image generation:

“There are those who say, ‘Well, you don’t look blind.’ or ‘you don’t act blind.’ I hear it all the time. We must remember that disabilities are not always visible.”

This image shows a large crowd made up of hundreds of small painted figures. The people are simplified, colorful, and varied. Some wear bright colors, others darker tones. Some appear close together, while others are separated by small spaces. No single person stands at the center. The entire image is a field of human presence.

From a distance, the crowd looks like a pattern of color and shape. Up close, each figure suggests an individual life. The image gives the sense of many people sharing the same world while carrying different stories, needs, and experiences. Because the figures are stylized, their inner lives are not visible. The viewer cannot know from the outside what each person may be living with.

The image connects to Doreen’s quote about invisible disability. It pushes back against statements like “you don’t look blind” or “you don’t act blind.” The crowd reminds us that appearance does not reveal everything. Disability, pain, adaptation, and resilience may not be visible to others.

The title “Invisibly, Ours” suggests both hidden experience and shared belonging. The piece asks the viewer to look with more humility, and to remember that what cannot be seen is still real.