Daybreak in Old Hartford 16 inch by 20 inch oil on canvas $400
This painting is inspired by Karen Christie's poem, Daybreak in Old Hartford (after Langston Hughes.) I picked her poem from the English Poetry Inspired De'VIA Challenge, theme for Deaf Lives/History. Her poem shows as this:
This poem gave me a vision of the vines with the twines, they are the collaboration of all Hands. Like we are all connected. The names shown on the painting, I added them because most of them were in Old Hartford, except
for Abbe Sicard and Jean Massieu. And because I included them, they were with Laurent Clerc and Thomas Gallaudet in England during the Public Lecture in 1815, before they went to America by ship. See the Public Lecture, 1815 painting that was made in 2010. Alice Cogswell first met Laurent Clerc in Hartford, see painting,
First Time Meet. Harlan Lane, because he was an exceptional writer for a book, When The Mind Hears, and
talked about Abbe Sicard, Jean Massieu, Laurent Clerc and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. Albert Newsam,
because he designed and sculpted the Gallaudet Monument for the old American School for the Deaf in
Hartford, Connecticut. I included Clayton Valli because he is the 'pioneer' of spreading Dandelions everywhere
in his ASL version poem. We are the collaboration of all Hands. See a video of Dorothy Wilkins signing the
poem in ASL version filmed and edited by Karen Christie.
Description of the Hands:
Abbe Sicard's hand seen in Misrepresentation on how he held the student's hand to his throat for speech
therapy.
Harlan Lane's hands are held together as shown in his portrait.
Laurent Clerc's hands are signed in french, meaning, educate, seen in the Public Lecture, 1815 painting.
Thomas Gallaudet's hands holding the leaflet.
Jean Massieu's hand raised up on a chalkboard, shown on Langlois' 1806 painting.
Albert Newsam's hand, as a painter.
Alice Cogswell's hand signing C for her last name, Cogswell.
Clayton Valli's signing for a mature white head dandelion.
credited to Karen Christie and Dorothy Wilkins.
