28 Days in February Challenge 2018 Hashtag #Devia2018 THEME: Community 1 2 3 R A/R R

28 Days in February Challenge 2018 Hashtag #DeVIA2018 THEME: Community 1 2 3 R A/R R

BLACK ROW BOAT KARL WHITE FIGURE(S)

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 A/R R A A/R A/R R A/R

RELAY BUBBLE SEED FRAME/FRAMING PARENTS IN THE PIT BOOK SHELVES SERVICE MESSAGE

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 R A R A/R R A/R R

MASON JAR HANDEYE PLAGUE ROOTS EHDI KEYHOLE SKULL DOCTOR

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 A R A/R R A A/R A

BEE HIVE ROBOT FIRE TARGET MURAL/BANNER RALLY TREE STUMP ALARM

25 26 27 28 R A/R A/R A

STAGE ILY RAINBOW HUMAN HEART

R= Resistance A= Affirmation OPTION A/R= either

28 Days in February Challenge 2018 Theme: Community

THEME: Community. It can be about the Deaf community. It can be about Community Accountability, you name it.

MOTIFS/DESCRIPTIONS

DAY 1 BLACK FIGURINES/FIGURES (R) Meaning: black figure(s) in the background can be a message that is telling you something, there is a meaning behind it. It also refers to who they are or where is it coming from? or a group of people, solidarity, protest, etc. Examples:

2 DAY 2 ROW BOAT (A/R) Meaning: row boat can be “safe haven” but a row boat can be rough through a storm when it becomes vivid and uncontrollable. It also means, a journey, searching for a meaning. In that case, on a long journey. As David Call refers the storm as “storm of Audism” Example:

Kathy Fisher-Abraham David Call David Call

Day 3 KARL WHITE (R) Meaning: (to learn about who Dr. Karl White is) - see his articles as he is trying to show ASL destroys English language development. See his EHDI revolution https://handeyes.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/karl-and-all-the-kings-horses/ Example:

Diane Squires Heidi Storme 3 Day 4 RELAY SERVICE (A/R) Meaning: a relay service can be done through videophone or your past experience with a TTY/TDD. Anything that is about relay service, what can be done better? Any bad experience with the relay service? Funny story about the relay service? Examples:

Ellen Mansfield unknown artist the artist said that he felt isolated and in darkness until he was able to utilize technologies like captions, flashing lights, ci, video relay services etc to lift him out of the void of having access to information, knowledge, languages etc

Maria Dollhopt Keeping coda children of Deaf inmates in communication with parents through videophone accessibility. The boy could see to face to face with his father by videophone. The girl is thinking of her father, says to him stays safe in department of correction and avoid physical abuse.

4 The baby signs hug to his father and benefits from seeing him. We are together and stay strong by fighting for children of Deaf inmates in the department of correction to have access to videophone so they can communicate with their parents.

Takiyah Harris - "No access from the prison" Description: Diverse Deaf Prisoner felt isolation from the reality since he was not allowed to contact his family members through either the videophone or relay service on TDD.

Day 5 BUBBLE MESSAGE (R) Meaning: (a balloon with a message to tell a story) or it can be something of a dream you wish to see, to happen, or you are having a bad dream, a warning to happen, your worst nightmare. Examples:

Stevie Naeyaert Stevie Naeyaert Sandra Wood

5 Day 6 SEED (A) Meaning: sow a seed and it will bloom. What do you wish to see it bloom? What kind of seed will a HandEye tree be or a flower? It can be something about Deafhood, your own identity, or what do you wish to see in the future? Perhaps a seed to be sown that is badly needed? Example:

Stevie Naeyaert David Call Patti Durr

6 Day 7 FRAME/FRAMING (A/R) Meaning: refers to creating boundaries to fit assumptions, values, perceptions. To try to influence the way other people think by communicating limitations or point of view. How a person frames something communicates their point of view (and influences how others perceive it.) Examples: Ian Sanborn 2017 Artist's comment: George Veditz to present, between the frames in a filmstrip he'd never ceased to inspire the future with his moral insight on sign language. Today, with the WF10X film negative magnifier, frame #6 symbolizes how our colorful eyes keep sign language invincible and the existing truth that last infinitely. Maybe I should've switched infinity with eternity... Above all, this very frame #6 is what brings the whole filmstrip to life.

Ian Sanborn

This is how doctors and audiologists see in Deaf people, how they frame them as in dEAFNESS (David Call’s term)

Nancy Rourke

7 Day 8 PARENTS (A/R) Meaning: Deaf Parent(s) of Deaf child or Hearing Parent(s) of Deaf child, or Deaf parent(s) of Hearing child. Show something you want to make art about, or vlog about it, etc that is about a parent. Be creative. Examples:

Laurie Monahan Ellen Mansfield Nancy Rourke

Day 9 IN THE PIT (R) Meaning: something is thrown away or been tossed in the pit. “In the pit” is a very sensitive experience, and it can be an encounter, that can be forever destroyed. The chopped hands tossed in the pit, is one example, the Deaf culture has been eroded. that a person felt s/he can no longer sign. Examples:

David Call Nancy Rourke

8 Day 10 BOOKSHELVES (A/R) Meaning: “put the book back in the shelf” idiom, Meaning of bookshelf and a memory aid (called Mnemonic) to retain that meaning for long time in our memory. Bookshelf can be a reference purposes. It can be something very critical, or it can be books that you read that makes people think and know who you are. Example:

Laurie Monahan

Day 11 MASON JAR (R) Meaning: inside a mason jar, something or someone is trapped inside and cannot be freed. A mason jar, is something to collect and kept for. Examples:

Scotty Zwicker Amy Cohen Efron Patti Durr

9 Day 12 HANDEYE (A) Meaning: Handeye as George Veditz spoke about people being the people of eye and hand. That refers to Deafhood and Deaf culture. Examples:

David Call Paul Scearce

Day 13 PLAGUE DOCTOR (R) Meaning: The motif of plague doctor, created by David Call, shows a bird-masked figure in black. It represents an evil, dishonest person such as medical practitioners and eugenic scientists who have the desire to fix, change or wipe out Deaf people. Examples:

Heidi Storme David Call Nancy Rourke

10 Day 14 ROOTS (A/R) Meaning: to establish deeply and firmly. For example, sign language is rooted in Deaf culture. Examples:

Patti Durr Rooted in Heart by Claudia A. Jimenez “Sign Language Our Roots’ by Pamela Witcher

Day 15 EHDI (R) Meaning: EHDI is Early Hearing Detection Intervention. A good article that explains what EHDI is: https://handeyes.wordpress.com/2016/03/13/ehdi-what-it-is-isnt-could-be-should-be/

World Federation of the Deaf just announced- Sept 23, 2018 official International Day of Sign Language – this can be an idea to make art that shows different sign languages around the world. EHDI does not respect WFD and sign language. Video example: https://vimeo.com/245920575 Examples:

“EHDI?” by Patti Durr Nancy Rourke “ “ “ “ 11 Day 16 KEYHOLE (A/R) Meaning: represents the need to unlock and/or to gain access to something (in De’VIA the keyhole usually represents the gateway to ASL or being shut out / locked out of things) Examples:

Stevie Naeyaert Aurelio Cruz David Call

Day 17 SKULL (R) Meaning: resistance- is for eugenics. Examples:

David Call Patti Durr

12 Day 18 BEEHIVE (A) Meaning: Deaf Community Examples:

Takiyah Harris Kathy Fisher-Abraham NYSD

Day 19 ROBOT (R) Meaning: to being a robot is being colonized by the CI industry complex, or by AGB, or by a strict oral school. Another meaning, to what David Call wrote, “robot is an attempt to robotize Deaf child with mechanical implants such as CI and program her to "hear and speak" aimlessly for the rest of her life.” Another meaning, is a Deaf person who fought hard to get out of the system after being robotized for years, another word for being controlled by the system. Anything that relates to being ‘dEAFNESS’ (David’s term) Examples:

Daniel Winship David Call CSD student

13 Day 20 FIRE ALARM (A/R) Meaning: Fire Alarm can be a Deaf culture thing. Deaf students pulled/pranked fire drill, to get the most number pulled, in order to compete with other schools. that is one example (true story). Another example is from your dorm room when a fire drill was pulled, what was your experience like? When seeing all the flashing lights from the outside building, they looked amazingly. Many different types of fire drills you can remember at Deaf schools, or at Gallaudet, or at NTID, etc., etc. based on your experience. However, it can also happen at work for a Deaf employee. Example: Nancy Rourke’s Flashing Lights at Tower A

Nancy Rourke Takiyah Harris

14 Day 21 TARGET (R) Meaning: a target is usually in red color circle. It means that you are in the spotlight for the most desired wanted person. For example, Nancy Rourke’s Mask of Benevolence, shows a red color circled on a Deaf person signing “STOP” among all other greedy professionals who think of $$$ and try to give away fault messages to the hearing world. They are aiming at a Deaf person, because ‘we are valuable’ to them. Anything that targets at a Deaf person, is a very serious issue and that needs to be stopped. Anything that you can think of, that is aiming at, becomes a target which is audism. It can be based on a personal experience, a system, a group of people, and so on. A target can be haunting as well. Examples:

Nancy Rourke MSSD student Laurie Monahan

Day 22 MURAL/BANNER (A) Meaning: a mural refers to being pride at what you did and do, to expose to the hearing world. What do you want the hearing world to see? You make a mural, to carry that to a rally, or to a conference, or to a presentation or to just hang it up in your own living room wall. Be creative! Examples:

PDSD D^AU Deaf Puerto Rico

Day 23 RALLY (A/R) Meaning: come to think of what you dream to do, you wish to do, you want to do, at a rally. Examples:

Patti Durr #DeVIAinauguration David Call Nancy Rourke

Day 24 TREE STUMP (A) Meaning: tree stump is a lifetime thing, for example when it is chopped down, there is left a stump. You can sit on it, put a pottery there, make a statue, you name it. For a Deaf culture or Deafhood, what do you want to put there on a tree stump? Examples:

Nancy Rourke (Veditz’s heart on a tree stump, in colorful bleeding)

16 Day 25 STAGE (R) Meaning: this refers to being on stage. Having a stage fright? You feel spotlighted? All eyes on you? Be creative. Examples:

Bethany Hall Tracey Milo Diane Squires

Day 26 ILY (A/R) Meaning: ILY is everywhere. Do you get sick of seeing ILY symbols at sales booths? What about art/cultural appropriation like pincause did of ILY pins? Anything you can think of. Affirmation or resistance. Examples:

Nancy Rourke Paul Kiel by a Deaf youth. Drawing of value in ASL with red letters written "Value". "Beauty" is written vetically under #why I Sign in between the drawings of both hands signing "SIGN" (close and open then close). At the right in red letters "CLICKED" "DISCOVER" "Communication" and #Deaf (ness is circled and crossed out). At the lower left corner is a ILY sign with a red hard and letters ILY. Below the ILY, it says "I've lived a life without ASL and I was so deprived in my knowledge of self. At the right, it says "ASL opens a whole new world for me. I learned when I was 14 years old in high school. Since then I began to develop my signing skills and begin to DISCOVER (in red letters) my true identity as beyond the #DEAF ("ness" crossed out).

17 Day 27 RAINBOW (A/R) Meaning: This refers to LGBT. “coming out”, pride, human rights, and so on. This is Affirmation or Resistance option. This can apply to straight people as well, for example, bullying. Examples:

Ashton Adams Laurie Monahan Laurie Monahan

Day 28 HUMAN HEART (A) Meaning: Human heart refers to something very personal, to something that is loved, something that is forever important. Be creative. It can be about most anything. Example:

Patti Durr Nancy Rourke

18 This is to give you a better idea to prepare for your 28 Days in February challenge and to understand more on the categories of AFFIRMATION and RESISTANCE.

CATEGORY DEFINITIONS

-AFFIRMATION (A) refers to Deaf identity, Deafhood, Deaf History, Deaf Pride, ASL. AFFIRMATION represents aesthetics and authentic expressions of the Deaf/DeafBlind experiences. There is a whole list of ideas to be proud of and to express that in art. Motifs: ASD (American School for the Deaf), fingerspelling, Deaf club, sunrise, intersectionality, etc.

-RESISTANCE (R) refers to truth telling, the expression of the truth that can show a wake-up calling, or to understand where that was coming from. For example, what had happened to you when you were mainstreamed or what had happened to Laurent Clerc when his tongue got bruised. This is also quite educated for hearing people who have no knowledge about the Deaf culture and history. Motifs: clock, institution, beggars, ruler, brick, etc. It also refers to Deaf individual based on Deaf experiences from the past or present that a Deaf person could no longer hold back, is one way to expose that to the world. To let go of the past experience, to express frustration or anger, to express the truth and/or to put it to a closure or better yet to understand your own Deaf experience.

-(A/R) refers to either pick AFFIRMATION or RESISTANCE category for a motif.