Artist: Jon Savage
Medium: Video Art
Duration: 20 minutes
Format: Single channel video with optional looping installation
Description
ASL Poetry Video Art is a 20 minute immersive video experience featuring 23 sequences of American Sign Language poetry layered with English poetic text, original visuals, and rhythmic pacing. Created by Deaf artist Jon Savage, this work invites viewers into a world where movement becomes meaning and language takes shape through the body.
Each segment explores a distinct emotional moment, ranging from joy to sorrow, resilience to vulnerability, unfolding as a visual tapestry of handshape, facial expression, and color. Rather than relying on voice or narration, the work centers the expressive clarity of ASL and its power to communicate directly through visual rhythm.
Designed to be experienced with or without sound, this piece is a meditation on identity, culture, and emotional fluency through Deaf eyes.
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