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Pleased to announce “Sanctuary Sessions” will be starting from Thursday 25th September and kindly hosted by @puzzlebored in the centre of Brighton!  When:  Thursday 25th September 2025. And the last Thursday every month.  What time: From 4 pm to 6 pm  Where: Puzzle Bored Cafe, in the ND friendly room on the 2nd floor. 27 New Road, Brighton, BN....

#SanctuarySessions #NeurodivergentArtists #NeurodivergentCreatives #BrightonandHove 

Missing

Missing the depth of warm conversation(s)

Not combat ready talk, full of only glass shards and bullets 'Prove it' retort cycles …………. policed all utterances

Missing heart led flow and pause Plural spacious active void of multiples and ocean of interacting phenomena

Missing time with unpoisoned smiles
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Hello,

Some may have seen the new Ought issue details over on my Instagram account before Christmas but if you missed it please see the Fall issue of ‘Ought the Journal of Autistic Culture’. This issue focuses on ‘Neurodivergent Works in Neurotypical Workspaces’.

Thank you to our cover artist Holly Sheldrake @art.hgs (Instagram) whose powerful piece ....

Ought The Journal for Autistic Culture. Spring 2024.  'Autistic Aesthetics'  edition. 

Please see the Spring edition of 'Ought the Journal of Autistic Culture'. This edition focuses on 'Autistic Aesthetics'. As ever, we would like to thank all  our contributers as we couldn't do this without them. And thank you to our cover artist Dylan Mackenzie who's p....

Pernille Fraser, 2024 #notionsandspatialgravities

The delivery of  Truths:  Mythologies 

*Image: 'Angry mouths.' Pernille Fraser, 2024.  Augmented news imagery. 

'The truth hurts!' they say. This is in fact a generalised untruth. 

The truth doesn't always hurt and doesn't always have to be delivered in a scathing way. 

A little game: 

Do almost all livi....

Ought The Journal for Autistic Culture. Autumn/Fall 2023.  'Critical Autism Studies'  edition. 


Cover Artist Sonia Boue 

Full publication can be accessed here: [link] />
#oughtthejournalofautisticculture #criticalautismstudies #autisticcreatives #autisticartists #autisticwriters #crit....

Enso Interchange 


By Pernille Fraser, Mixed media and photography. 2020

#moodtransmission #feltwarmth #feltcold

Contradiction of  ‘mistakes’
‘Make mistakes’! ‘Learn from mistakes’

‘Don’t do that’ mistakes ‘Be brave’ mistakes

‘Laugh at your mistakes’ ‘Not like that’ mistakes

Request help with ‘content mistakes’ ….. ……get corr....

Potential:  The space between the vibrant edges 


'Potential: The space between the vibrant edges'. Pernille Fraser. Mixed media and digital manipulation 2023

Some words I often sense are relegated are 'potential' and 'possibilities'. Negative forebearance superseeding their resonance. These words echos. 
#potential #possibilities #thespaceb....

Different changing Novembers

Storm rain succession
Occasional rays to bask 
Leaves not fully dropped 
Green barely yellow
ladybird two and five spot walk around windows
Spiders not fully arrived yet.


Pernille Fraser, 2023

#biasinquestioning #doubleempathyproblem #selfspacedrain

PF 2019

#doubleempathyproblems #stiltedinteractions #criticalityforcriticalityssake? #tellingactions #selfspaceevaporation #problematisingtheproblematisers  #learnerautonomy 

Ought The Journal for Autistic Culture . 'The Internet' edition 



Art work by Artist Jon Adams 

Edition available here: [link] />
#Oughtthejournalforautisticculture #spring2023 #nothingaboutuswithoutus

Request // Demand interlopers 

Pernille Fraser, May 2019
#RequestInterlopers #DemandInterlopers #PhonicFerver

 Removal of deficit language baggage .....


#StillDysing #Why? #movefrompathologytosocialmodel #spacedetractor #negativenarrative 

Pernille Fraser March 2019. 

'Free to learn?

 
'Free to learn' started as a side thought in 2021 when contemplating Neurodivergent learner autonomy - the learners learning space - the atmosphere they are asked to inhabit.  Rolling around initially as a statement and then a query.  Are Neurodivergents free to learn?

Many already know they are not. They get lost under terms like....

Non  Visible    S k    i      p Low constant drain Phonic presence demander *again sdrow sdrawkcaB _____skip skipped

*External uninvited 'explain-a-sizer'. Incorrect incorrector. False presumer pHASE drain …fog

*status quo unnecessary dysregulator unnecessary unnecessary

*Dis....

Mind Feelers


' Mind feelers',
2023, Digital media. 
By Pernille Fraser, 

#PeripersonnelSpace #InterfaceConciousness 

Atmosphere- WIP:

' Their mood vomit was not an educational tool, objective or part of the curriculum at any age' 

Would you learn in this?



Pernille Fraser.  WIP . Augmented imagery, 2023
#wip #emotionalcontagion #learnerautonomyevaporation #notsuckingitup #theycanhavetheirtensionback #theycanhavetheirdarksideback #selfspace #atmosp....

Projected endless availabilty ....... 



#SeasonalNeurodivergentDecemberEnergy #NoEnergyForSale

Ought:  The Journal of Autistic Culture. 'Sexuality' edition.   Volume 4, Issue 1, Fall 2022  


'Expanding Views' By Pernille Fraser

Edited by Professor Robert Rozema  'I am incorrectly female. I am incorrect, and that is a punishable offense. And this tension, it’s yours. I am not helping you anymore. You need to learn what ....

Visual without having to write about it............

#dyslexicattemptatrest #autisticattemptatrest #neurodivergentattemptatrest #nodialoguerequired #beyondproveitweexist

Ephemeral fog.

The inbetween times. Ends without beginnings and beginnings without ends.  Spaces of freedom.  

*Photographic imagery taken in various locations through the U.K in 2023

Pernille Fraser, 2023

Part 3: Wabi Sabi, a curer for the curers? 
Wabi Sabi embraces imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness. It is a way of seeing the world that values simplicity, humility, and authenticity. In a world that is obsessed with narrow metric perfection, hierarchal forms of communication and complexities. Wabi Sabi offers a refreshing perspective that can help find peace and a w....

A quote I often return to and I believe to be very true as we are non linear:
'Neurodivergent [artists/creatives] persistently attack the same theme from
all angles in numerous ways'. 
Jon Adams, Flow Observatorium. 2019. 

I believe this to be true. Plurality, non linear....working in the round, circling in wheels in multiple ways.

PF. 20....

To much weight .......

PF. Nov. 2022
#spacetakers #redactive #selfspacedetraction #oldnotessameshit

Feathers over thorns   Metaphor for dialogue. 



#spatialinvitation #lessprojecture #morespace #spacecreator

Parachutes........


   Pernille Fraser, Photography. 2020                    
                                               #Parachutes2020 #lockdownexperiments

Reciprocal Energies 




#reciprocalenergies #nondrain 
Pernille Fraser. 2022

Front cover. Ought The Journal for Autistic Culture.  Vol 2, Issue 1, 2020:  'Many rooms, Multiple moments, one home'.  2014 




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'Forms' of Abelism 

#FormsOfBureaucracy #FormsOfAbelism #DisablingForms #FormsDisabling #NeuroMajorityProveItForms #equity #parity #cultureshiftneeded #artsorganisationchangeneeded #systemshift #wheredoyourtickboxesgo #neurodivergent

Pernille Fraser.  Originated 2019.  

Nerve centre







Pernille Fraser, Mixed media. 2022

#peripersonnelextensions #externaltouch #atmospherictemperature #sensate #selfspace #mattersofsocialatmosphere

Part 2:  Wabi sabi and neurodivergent resonance

Wabi Sabi and Neurodivergency connection to diverse wild nature. Neurodivergency and the Japanese philosophy of wabi sabi are two concepts that may seem unrelated at first glance. However, looking closer, there are similarities between the two worth are exploring. The following compares, and contrasts, neurodivergency and Wabi Sabi....

Part 1: Wabi sabi - subtle beauty


Shards, PF

Web, PF   The perfectly imperfect.  I breathed out when I came across a copy of  the book ‘Wabi-Sabi, for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers’ by Leonard Koren’s on a shelf in a library while studying, it’s spacious layout, I want to say organic- ness (....

Schema: Nerving sensory atmospheric agitators.

'Proximity overload' PF 2019

Mood Contagion

Mood travels

PF.  August 2021

#moodtravels #emotionalcontagion #periperipersonnelenvasions 

Interface - Consciousness // Consciousness - Interface

Interchange 


#precategory #preaction #predefinition #spatialendevours #artandinterface #artisinterface #interfaceandconsciousness #consciousnessandinterface

The zone before words……thankfully

Move towards the nameless void the intuit whispered.

While others were ‘proving’ or ‘inflicting’ cognitive dissonance on others subjectivities there is a place, a space, a zone before words, before over earnest categorisers lay claim, the light nameless nebulous void floated without attachments;
....

Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture 
Volume 3 // 2nd Issue // Spring 2022

'Family' 

 Thank you to our cover Artist Sonia Boue and all other contributors including Jon Adams of Flow Observatorium, Ronaldo Bryn , Lennie and Kazimer of Dyspla and Alison Lam and more. 

Flow state // hyperfocus // hyperfocus // flow state
Rest from the disquieting  The clearing chime An active restbite A singular dialogue A gathering of one alignment 

A non attached time 
Pernille Fraser , 2022  

*The following imagery may hurt some peoples eyes. Showing blurry ovals in space in a series of spaces using light to dark backgrounds in a square. 

Dysregulated orbits in space (peripersonnel space)



Pernille Fraser. May 2022

#peripersonnelspace #pervasiveatmospherics #moodtravels #ephemeralencroachment #culturaloverlaps #overagitatednervoussystems....

The need of transition space (S) for Neurodivergent and/or disabled people moving from (and to) action, make and doing:

Transition time // Transitional phonic safe // Transitional peripersonal space // Flexible transition space (S) Some may declare such times as just ‘reflective time’ but consider de-phonic // De-actioned demand-less space //

‘....

A loose guide for neurodivergent learners and students 

"Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me." Erich Fromm
“The Art o....

The joy of the hinterland Disinterested in strident ‘takers’ …….life grabbers… energy mis-guiders The loudest discouragers no longer in phonic space The density of demanders declined…… narrow prescribers Not their time, life or space Lucid looseness ………………………… more requests d....

A gift for fellow Neurodivergent artists I drew up the following list as something I would have liked to have read decades ago.  It may grow and change but for now I hope this helps others. ‘No’ will be your greatest sculptural tool (this will leave room for when you can actually say 'yes'): Not every opportunity is an opportunity. Your time is finite, even more so for us, as ....

We are family - Creating a Program of support for neurodivergent refugees from Ukraine A month ago, I hadn’t heard of Fundacja Prodeste (Prodeste Foundation).  Then like many, I saw reports come flooding in of Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine. Thereafter I fell in to the trap (again) of constantly scanning news outlets, reporters ‘updates’, journalist output - sift....

  

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#AU4UA
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Educational Policy in the UK: An Interview with Artist/Activist Jessica Starns Pernille Fraser, Ought Visual Arts Editor
Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture November 2021
"Some years ago, I came across a project by Jessica Starns, then a postgraduate student at Brighton University, U.K. Jessica’s knowledge about neurodivergence and education left an impress....

Can we trust? Can we trust the space you offer? Can we trust the words you utter?

Can we trust the time decided? Can we trust the form provided?

Can we trust your singular view? Can we trust the treatment we receive from you?

Can we trust the way you perceive? Can we trust you to sit, listen and receive?

Can we trust you not to leave anothe....

Schema 4 # Space detractors. Corrosive atmospherics. Negative binary linguistics pump(s). .....if the only words you hear are......

People with learning differences receive a much higher rate of negative, coercive, instructive, corrective, actions towards them day in day out, hour in hour out, diminishing them more and more, each and every day until they become invisible. Having a ....

Schema 3 # Removal of guilt based language Pervasive
Divisive
Coercive
Corrosive Words and their intonations are used as activators, as motivators, as guidance, as instructors, as framework, as drivers, as elevators, as distractors, as divisive, as coercive, as corrosive. Written and verbal language has the potential to deflate or inflate our surroundings and encompassing spac....

Schema 2 #

There is more than one art world.  

Post study I was left wondering more why no one seem to help 'Goya' and 'Bacon' and cared more about the and (over focused on) one mans 'revelation' over another mans brillo pad art.  Yes it was a creative act, a rebellion, but who looked after the artists? Why the reluctance?  Where was their and others care?....

Schema 1 # a picture says a thousand words....

"Space is the breath of Art " Frank Lloyd Wright

"Like the house of breath, the house of wind and voice is a value that hovers on the frontier between reality and unreality.  No doubt a realistic mind will remain well this side of this region. But for a poetry lover who reads with joy and imagination, it is a red-letter day ....

Phonic sketches 2016

Phonic observations // phonic spaces // experiencing sounds // mark making sounds
Pernille Fraser  
#phonicobservations #phonicspaces #experiencingsounds #markmakingsounds