Sign Language
Silent voices,
hearing through the eyes
The author turns her attention to sign language. Forty portraits of children who tell fairy tales such as red riding hood, express feelings and abstract concepts. The characters use a complete iconic language consisting of grammar and syntax that reveals the origin of language and communication.
http://www.associazioneculturaledioniso.it/inmostre/voci-dal-silenzio/
Sign language has very ancient origins and could help explain our innate ability to communicate thoughts through a grammatical scheme that gives them form and logic. The photographic images of the signs leave room for intuition, they invite you to listen to catch the voice of this silent language. It is as if the hands were dancing to the music and were endowed with great creativity.
But the great talent of the deaf has always been that of painting, as can be learned from an interesting encyclopedia of deaf artists recently released entitled The color of silence, complete and detailed, which mentions famous artists such as Pinturicchio and Francisco Goya. Color is certainly the most immediate and privileged channel (after sign language) through which the deaf express feelings and creativity.
* American Sign Language (ASL) was studied in America by W. Stokoe from a grammatical, syntactic and morphological point of view. The Italian Sign Language (LIS) by Virginia Volterra, director of the CNR since 1998.
hearing through the eyes
The author turns her attention to sign language. Forty portraits of children who tell fairy tales such as red riding hood, express feelings and abstract concepts. The characters use a complete iconic language consisting of grammar and syntax that reveals the origin of language and communication.
http://www.associazioneculturaledioniso.it/inmostre/voci-dal-silenzio/
Sign language has very ancient origins and could help explain our innate ability to communicate thoughts through a grammatical scheme that gives them form and logic. The photographic images of the signs leave room for intuition, they invite you to listen to catch the voice of this silent language. It is as if the hands were dancing to the music and were endowed with great creativity.
But the great talent of the deaf has always been that of painting, as can be learned from an interesting encyclopedia of deaf artists recently released entitled The color of silence, complete and detailed, which mentions famous artists such as Pinturicchio and Francisco Goya. Color is certainly the most immediate and privileged channel (after sign language) through which the deaf express feelings and creativity.
* American Sign Language (ASL) was studied in America by W. Stokoe from a grammatical, syntactic and morphological point of view. The Italian Sign Language (LIS) by Virginia Volterra, director of the CNR since 1998.