Description about the painting:

I started this painting in 2015 during the 28 Days in February Challenge and finally finished today as of September 9, 2018. I kept changing things around and made the painting more camouflaged with patterns
as I wanted to focus on how Deaf children were treated in oral schools and mainstreamed program.
They felt like a wallflower that audists neglected their own true identity.

This entire view is supposed to be a class group picture, inspired by Betty G. Miller's Bell School, 1944.
They were kept hidden with constantly hard work. Not only that, this is about Language Deprivation where doctors, teachers, speech therapists want to emphasize on listening-spoken-language (LSL).

There are five motifs in the paintings. Each motif has a meaning. There are chains, blue tapes, hooves,
chairs and bells. The Deaf children are tied in chains, they were not alllowed to use sign language where
it is their first visual language. In the painting, shows that they are blindfolded with blue tapes, meaning they cannot peek or cheat. They have to learn how to identify sounds and to focus on speaking. In the painting,
there is a wallpaper with Melville Graham Bell's 1867 Visible Speech symbol (that shows bells). A bell
symbol stands for AGBell and its associates like the Elephant in the Deaf Room. Melville was Alexander
Graham Bell's father. The red carpet shows patterns with Melville Graham Bell's Visible Speech, that shows
a silhouette of a face with mouth and tongue. His methods of using Visible Speech failed as it did not worked
for Deaf children. The hooves on their shoes represents something has taken over and is in charge of their
lives that they will never forget in their moments in their life time.