Natalie Choi

ARTIST STATEMENT 

What is Queer Crip Love? This piece shows the tickling, unique, and colorful ways people in the disability community express love to demonstrate an alternative to straight, neurotypical, able-bodied love. From prosthetic dildos to hand-painted shot glasses that mimic a lover’s IV meds, this piece is a celebration of the ways that disability is integrated into expressions of affection. This is for the lovers who reinvent what it means to love: accommodating for partners who are amputees, handicapped, autistic, chronically ill, and all the various in-betweens of neurodivergence and non-able-bodiedness.

COLLABORATORS: Sasha Kurkenkova and Madeline Zolik

BIO

Natalie Choi (she/her) is a Chinese American artist who dabbles in everything from sculpture to web design. When not hanging grass from her apartment ceiling in Chinatown or fooling around with photoshop, she’s a third-year student studying medical ethics. After dropping out of premed (after a midlife crisis or two), she fell in love with clinical psychology and intends to minor in Disability Studies. Art has been a way to integrate the wide variety of subjects she’s passionate about. She finds doodles to be the best way to learn in every class, and often turns in an art piece for every final. While she’s uncertain about what she’ll produce next, it is sure to be an interdisciplinary patchwork of her latest obsessions.