Dyslexia by Doug Winter

Discovery

Dyslexia is about how meaning slips and stumbles when the senses don’t line up, and what looks like a blur is really a translation, color trying to recite the alphabet, memory trying to make sense, and verbalize what the body already knows.

Doug Winter
Dyslexia
Achival Pigment Print on 300gsm Cotton Rag Paper
16.5 x 13.5 in (41.91 x 34.29 cm)

Dyslexia comes from living with a body and mind that read the world differently. The pink in this work carries both confusion and care; it holds the moment when understanding gets tangled, stumbles, but feeling stays clear.

I created this piece through my ongoing process of altering the camera and using materials like makeup and light to trace emotion and capture movements through touch. It’s part of a project about what we inherit—not just through blood or memory, but through gestures, pressure, and the small ways we learn to adapt.

For me, Dyslexia isn’t about error. It’s about learning to read differently, finding my way inside a jumble.

Subject Matter: Experimental photography, lived perception, memory and adaptation, language and body, emotional translation

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Doug Winter

Elk Grove, CA

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