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Ah, the cruelty of the societal stigma that follows the infirm.
Despite numerous attempts at education, at social reform and better facilities, we still regard those who can't do for themselves as alien.
But what of their hopes and dreams? What of their inner world? This portrait delves deeply into that existential blank spot.
We are asked to consider what this babby would have accomplished had it the proper use of its limbs. What Elysian fields it would have found had it a way to get to them.
Instead, we find it alone, with the thousand-mile stare that all disenfranchised peoples know far too well.