EXHIBITION DETAILS
Portraits | Bear Kirkpatrick
October 3 - November 22, 2014
Reception: October 3, from 6 - 8 PM
STATEMENT
As a very young boy I went deaf from causes that are now obscure. Since I went deaf slowly my body was able to compensate for this loss by learning how to read lips, and so exchange the loss of auditory for the gain of the visual. This transition was so seamless that I was able to hide the handicap from my parents for a long time, but it altered my experience of the world. It gave me an increased power to witness, and I saw hidden things. I remember clearly seeing the other people who lived inside my mother and my father, the strange flashes of other beings within them that spoke of the fugitive, the dangerous, the not them.
