It was felt by the Occupational Therapist that Jade’s Bouncing and Rocking were Attempts to Cope (she needed help to latch), 2025-2026

The artist’s Autism assessments and diagnostic paperwork (dated 2001-2014; citations Tara Turnstall, Ph.D, Dr. Patricia Lupton), wheatpaste, childhood paper lamp, fishing line, transpore tape, photographs, paper envelope, hidden object.

11”(diameter)  x 25”

Jade Mikell is interested in how disability has been inaccurately idealised and how critical perspectives from within that community are usually deplatformed in the social institutions of online spaces. Sanitized, palatable versions of neurodevelopmental disabilities like Autism, which discount significant components of the community or intend to separate Autism from disability entirely, reach further online than presentations which might be more typical of someone with higher support needs and irrefutably attached to disability. It was felt by the Occupational Therapist is one work included in a project undertaken by Mikell to work through public representations of disability through recontextualising her own clinical history. Mikell wheatpastes identifiable, structural but non-functional furniture objects with photocopied excerpts of medical assessments which describe her in varying clinical contexts from ages 2-17.