Deaf Feet

Deaf Feet
December 1 - December 31, 2017
Lead-based oil on board
16” x 20”

Deaf Feet (December 1–31, 2017) examines repetition, vulnerability, and mediated perception through thirty-one black-and-white paintings of an inverted elephant, each created daily over December 2017. Arranged as a calendar or sometimes in a continuous line, each panel disrupts familiar visual cues, emphasizing raw form over recognizable shape.

The inversion of the elephant—a creature that senses danger through vibrations in the ground—symbolically removes its sensory awareness, rendering it “deaf” to potential threats. This gesture underscores the fragility of perception and the disorientation when perspectives are upended. Deaf Feet prompts reflection on the reliability of sight in an age of mediated images, encouraging a deeper consideration of clarity and truth in a world prone to distortion.