Description about the painting:

The Audist
Day 19 of 28 days
Mask motif, resistance
oil on canvas
11 inch by 14 inch
by Nancy Rourke
‪#‎DeVIA28Challenge‬

This painting is about Mask of Benevolence. The audist is CI corporations, audiologists, speech therapists, etc. The audist has a "blue tape" mask and sits on a fancy chair like a throne where making profit is critical. The room is small, and yet, it feels huge because of its power. Broken ASL hands are swept under the rug (idiom meaning to conceal something that a person does not want other people to know.) There is the hidden Elephant in the room. The audist is coloured in black, almost invisible, to meaning secret, hidden, lies, dark, and filthy business. Audism.