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A possible explanation for my abiding interest in the play between the visual and the auditory: I am congenitally deaf in one earIf this body speaks through the deafness of its one ear, it is but a singular case of a universal phenomenon. Any human sensorium communicates. Every act of perception is observable either by the the body itself or another body. An other possible explanation for my abiding interest in the play between the visual and the auditory is a love of reversals and crossings, an abiding fascination with symmetrical movement. Show and tell was as much fun as tell and show. I remember the great game of finding some old tool or gadget and trying to discover its use. I remember the cereal box turned inside out to provide a surface for coloured pencils to trace out the trajectories of stories. Along the way there were television watching and comic book appreciation to provided respectively glimpses of animation and the magic of transformations. I did not just draw landscapes or figures, I told of their becoming. To explain and then point was a delight as much as to point and ask questions. They still are.
It so happens that the curious, bilingual, sensorily
impaired person that I am still seeks the unbridled
permission to question. At times, even I understand, now,
how the therapeutic and the theoretical nudge each
other, how important it is to take care of the
observing and the judging, how to question the timing
of questions. Sometimes I wonder
why the move from the
responsive (question-answer) to the recursive
(question-question) happened when it did or happens
when it does and then |