nam 22 uu 4500 duepublico_mods_00000209 duepublico_mods_00000209 ger DE-601 rda ger 800 sdnb Soares, Marta Author aut Patricia Lay-Dorsey’s Visual Narrative of Chaos and Quest Soares, Marta text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Published in 2013, Falling into Place: Self-Portraits documents Patricia Lay-Dorsey’s daily journey of living with Multiple Sclerosis. Twenty years after her diagnosis, this American artist decided to take photos of herself so as to come to terms with her aging and disabled body, weaving a visual narrative that is both intimate and powerful. In this article, I look at Lay-Dorsey’s visual pathography in light of Arthur W. Frank’s narrative types of chaos and quest, exploring how her work combines traits of both categories as a way to eschew common (mis)representations of disabled people as “pitiable” and “inspiring.” On the one hand, the narrative outlined by Falling into Place is chaotic, giving an account of one’s lack of control in the face of a disease such as MS. Though Lay-Dorsey finds it uncomfortable to share these private moments of vulnerability, she takes her illness as a journey where chaos “falls into place,” a quest that allows the photographer/subject to accept and celebrate her body and where a disabling illness is taken as a possibility of growth. article Fakultät für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften DIEGESIS Jg. 7 (2018) H. 1 host institution his 7:1<19 Fakultät für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, DIEGESIS Diegesis 2195-2116 duepublico_mods_00000079 https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00000209 object in context https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/duepublico_derivate_00000586/dej18070102.pdf raw object https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/rsc/thumbnail/duepublico_mods_00000209.png preview https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00000209 uri