Dyslexia Discovery Exhibit, Christchurch, New Zealand

This striking bronze sculpture exhibit, titled 'Inner Struggle', is in a former villa car park in Worcester Boulevard opposite the Arts Centre, and was commissioned by the Dyslexia Foundation of New Zealand.

 

It depicts a young girl reading.

 

Words fly out of the book in a long stream, floating through the air.

 

'Whycan'tIgetit whycan'tIremember [...]

Iamtryinghard', etc.

 

Letters and words meld in confusion, and yet the central message is challenging, and something quite new to me:

 

'"Inner Struggle"

by Richard Taylor

& Weta Workshop

 

Celebrating the

imaginative

power

of the

dyslexic

mind'

 

Well, I didn't intend attempting to reproduce the typesetting, but the idea is what's important: dyslexia is seen as a creative gift rather than a disability.