| "Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the | | | | fact the whole unspoken language that is conveyed |
| end of your arm, as you get older, remember you | | | | through the hands and fingers. For those that are not |
| have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the | | | | impaired by these senses, tend to treat their hands |
| second is to help others." - Audrey Hepburn. | | | | with less significance in conjunction to failing to realize |
| Truly, hands are one important and effective tool that | | | | the importance of the hand gestures unlike those that |
| humans are made with. It is amazing as to see the | | | | are hearing or speech impaired person. A simple hand |
| actual working of the hand with regard to the stimulus | | | | expression can have an intense emotion or a powerful |
| of the brain. Especially the use of fingers along with the | | | | word behind it. |
| hand plays a greater role. Hands help the person in his | | | | Some people would treat their hands as some treat |
| her everyday activities , yet one fails to realize the | | | | their feet, not giving a second thought to how hands |
| importance of it on a daily bases. Hands are not just | | | | contribute to the quality of daily living. For deaf and |
| for doing some work that accomplishes millions of | | | | hard of hearing people, hands are their great assets. |
| tasks, (if one has to jot down every single and even | | | | They are not just for eating or picking up things. Hands |
| simple activity done by the hand) but has loads in store. | | | | are their link to the world, their main method of |
| Hands is something that most of us cannot do without | | | | communicating ideas, thoughts and emotions to others. |
| almost as if we are dependent on it. It is kind of | | | | Hands, with a few and fluid hand shapes, can convey |
| astonishing that most of us don't realize that we use | | | | an infinite amount of information. When a person signs, |
| our hands for not just work but also to gesture to the | | | | the world is placed in front of the deaf or hard of |
| other, our response to the ongoing conversation | | | | hearing individual. And these very hands when deploy |
| without even having to let a word out of the mouth. | | | | art on canvas express the thoughts of the deaf to a |
| For e.g. a handshake. This gesture itself can reflect a | | | | greater extent than the usual. |
| lot on one's persona based on the extent to which the | | | | Deaf artist, Charles Wildbank has communicated |
| arm is extended, the firmness in the handshake, the | | | | throughout his life through art. He sees the world |
| length of the handshake etc. Similarly the position of | | | | through light, color and American Sign Language, and it |
| the hands or what the hands are doing at the time of | | | | shows in the three of his works displayed in the show, |
| a conversation also echoes the characteristics of a | | | | 'Sonic Chromatic', which are 'Love',' Knowledge' and |
| person. | | | | 'Freedom'. By employing photorealism, he achieves in |
| To a deaf or hard of hearing person or even a | | | | conveying the inner world of a deaf and hard of |
| speech-impaired, the hand is one main mode of | | | | hearing individual who embraces his Deaf and hard of |
| communication to the person alike or to the rest of the | | | | hearing identity. |
| world. It is not just gestures but words, sentences, in | | | | |