Read and watch her story about how she fell in love with animation and how she has been fighting for representation:
https://www.otis.edu/news/otis-college-zione-hong-alumnx-deaf-animator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgtod8WEBhU
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This is a short personal comic/ stream-of-consciousness I made to mark the last day of Deaf Awareness Month (September). It’s based on something that I’ve experienced a lot in my life, but rarely see mention of, even though it’s a big issue. As a mainstreamed deaf person who grew up without sign language or a Deaf community, I had to learn a lot about advocating for myself and my language needs.
Isolation is very alienating and painful. So the next time you meet a deaf person, please, be patient, and respect the mode of communication they choose.
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A six-page comic about deaf identity titled, ‘What Do I Mean When I Talk About Deaf Loneliness.’ All pages have capitalized text, simple colors, and drawings set on a white background.
The first page shows the title written in black in scratchy, rough lines. The final word, loneliness, is written in thick red marker.
The second page shows countless tiny black circles of the same size scattered over the entire page. The message is written in light blue and reads, ‘I mean not existing in a room full of people.’ The letter O in of is filled-in with dark blue.
The third page shows nine stylized speech bubbles, each a different size and shape and which correspond to the words in the text. The message reads, ‘I mean always being talked about but never talking.’ All the words are light purple, except for the word talking which is a darker violet.
The fourth page shows a large column of text in the middle of the page surrounded by eyes of all different shapes and sizes. The eyes are all staring intensely at the words in the message, which reads, ‘I mean stared at but never seen.’ All the words are green, with the word seen in light green against a dark green background.
The fifth page shows a tangled mess of black threads interwoven within and around the text, trailing off the page. The message reads, ‘I mean being the joke but not laughing.’ All the words are in yellow, except for ‘being’ and ‘laughing’ in dark orange.
The sixth and final page shows three large, mostly abstract drawings stacked with the text. At the top is a loose, sketchy drawing of the sun in yellow, and at the bottom a swathe of tan brushstrokes indicating sand dunes. The message reads, ‘I mean having hands like water in a desert.’ All the words are brown except for the word water, which is bright blue and takes up the center of the page. It fades into a series of blue waves, which morph into various handshapes and letters in American Sign Language that reach up and around the word water, which is also rendered in the ASL fingerspelled alphabet. Finally, the word desert is written in dark brown, and is stylized with scattered brushstrokes to match the sand dunes.
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so update on me im a full time college student. i'm in art school and i'm studying to be an animator. one class im taking right now is doing a "sound project" (that's literally what the assignment is called). the artist my teacher used to show "sound art" is a deaf artist named Christine Sun Kim. here's some videos of her work:
This year, I'm thinking about adding a new type of post, completly different from what I'm used to here but it's something I've been wanting to do for a long time so I'll give it a try to see if you like it or not (feel free to tell me)
As the title says, I'd like to promote some artists, band, stuff I love or really enjoy, just for the fun and also because I, as well, love to have some goods recs sometimes !
For this first edition, I'd love to introduce to Nikesco and his brilliant work !
I discovered his work on Instagram and since a few months, I've been translating his work in english for his international audience on Instagram.
Nikesco is french, gay, and deaf. His work is focused around those point and also how we can see the world. He talks about how hearing people react about deafness and a lot of others subjects that will really help you see another view on this world.
I personnaly recognized myself a lot reading his comics even though I'm not deaf, and I really enjoy his drawing style full of colours !
You can check and follow his instagram page here (english translation in the post description) and you can also check his website here . You can also buy his first two books called "Le Bruit des gens" (The sound of people) if you're a french reader until he finds an english publisher .
That's it for this edition. Next time, I think I might focus on some TV recs. Thanks for reading this, I hope you'll enjoy Nikesco's content as much as I do.