Vantage Point.Virtuosity [art projects] : Be Heard

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Be Heard


Artist

Jason Bishop

Medium

Watercolor, Ink
16x20
Color

Note from Artist

This art piece is dedicated to people with hearing impairments. In a world filled with various sound stimuli - television, radio, the internet - it is easy for many people to forget that our ability to hear comes in varying degrees; no one hears something in the exact same way as another person. It is important for us all to remember those who are hard-of-hearing or experience deafness. The individual depicted here, rather than hide his disability, has emphasized his own uniqueness. The quote by Helen Keller reads: "Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom." It does not matter that this person has a sensory disability. Rather, what counts is the way he lives his life, which is true of all people.

Description of Art Work

This artwork is mounted in a black frame behind a mat for a viewing area of approximately 10.5 inches wide by 13.5 inches tall. It is painted with watercolor on white watercolor paper. The angle of viewing is 45 degrees off the horizontal. Featured, is a close-up of a young man's left ear, including his sideburn, ear, upper neck and shirt collar, and left hairline near his temple. His ear contains many piercings including one low-gauge lobe piercing, two higher-gauge lobe piercings just above the first, two higher-gauge piercings along the ear rim, two ruby studs in the outer conch cartilage, and an industrial piercing (a bar piercing traversing the entire upper ear with ball fasteners at either end). The man also has a in-the-canal hearing aid. His skin is an olive tone and he has middle-brown hair. His shirt collar is blue. The background is a green-white gradient. On the lower left of the image there is a quote that reads "Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom." On the lowest right is the originator of the quote, Helen Keller.