Animal Motifs
(Performed by students at Indiana School for the Deaf.
Filmed, edited, and directed by Tiffany Hoglind)
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Bee
Bee
Affirmative: Deaf community / collective / communal (i.e.bee hives), bees cannot hear (Deaf)
Explanation: motif explained by ZaniBelle Hoglind
click pdf link below to see Bee motif artworks from summer 2016 challenge
pdf-bee-motif-devia-animals-2016
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Birds
Birds
Affirmative: acceptance, freedom, peacemaker (dove), victory, ASL/signing, warning (black bird – raven)
Resistance: parroting (parrot copying speech), caged bird, broken wings, no freedom, no ASL
Explanation: motif explained by Sophia Wascher, Soleil Wheeler, and ZaniBelle Hoglind
click pdf link below to see Bird motif artworks from summer 2016 challenge
pdf-bird-motif-devia-animal-2016
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Butterfly and Cocoon
Butterfly and Cocoon
Affirmative: Deaf metamorphosis, evolution, journey, Deafhood, freedom, growth, happiness, thrive
Examples: see works listed https://deviacurr.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/day10motifbutterflyaffirmative.pdf
Explanation: motif explained by Gianna Wheeler
click pdf link below to see Butterfly motif artworks from summer 2016 challenge
butterfly-motif-devia-animals-2016
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Cow
Cow/Bull
Resistance: negative experience. Idol, Moloch, A.G.Bell
Explanation: motif explained by Seanna Baird
click pdf link below to see Cow motif artworks from summer 2016 challenge
revpdf_cowmotif_deviaanimal2016
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Crab
Crab
Resistance: Crab theory – pulling others down to try to prevent them from raising to the top.
Explanation: motif explained by Jacob Mahoney
click pdf link below to see Crab motif artworks from summer 2016 challenge
revpdf_crabmotif_deviaanimal2016
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Dog
Dog
Affirmative: bonding, family’s dog
Resistance: passive, submissive, dinner table syndrome or 2 dogs conflict
Explanation: motif explained by Nicholle Bradach
click pdf link below to see Dog motif artworks from summer 2016 challenge
pdf_dogmotif_deviaanimal2016
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Elephant
Elephant
Resistance: A.G. Bell, Audism, Oralism, “Elephant in the Room” (something big and obvious but everyone avoids talking about it or challenging/confronting/changing it)
*Note: At the end of the video, the De’VIA art, “Follow Me” revealed by Tiffany Hoglind is not a resistance art. Turning the motif from the resistance category into liberation thus making it affirmative, the artwork is ironically a good advocate for deaf communities to stand up and fight through unity for deaf children’s education rights of ASL usage.
Explanation: motif explained by Sarah Walton
click pdf link below to see Elephant motif artworks from summer 2016 challenge
revvpdf_elephantmotif_deviaanimal2016
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Fireflies
Fireflies
Affirmative: light, hope, freedom, collectivity, magic is believing – anything is possible, passion
Resistance: trapped, captured, squashed, language deprivation (ASL)
Explanation: motif explained by ZaniBelle Hoglind
click pdf link below to see Fire Flies motif artworks from summer 2016 challenge
pdffireflies-motif-devia-animals-2016
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Fish
Affirmative: Deaf Identity, Communicative underwater, silence
Resistance: took by fishing hooks, fish out of water, stuck in a fish bowl being watched and alone, duality / separation of two worlds
Examples: see works listed https://deviacurr.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/day-2-fish-part-1.pdf
https://deviacurr.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/day-2-fish-part-3.pdf
Explanation: motif explained Rocco Bauer
click pdf link below to see Fish motif artworks from summer 2016 challenge
pdffish-motif-devia-animals-2016
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Hamster
Hamster/Mouse/Rat/Guinea Pig
Resistance: experimentation subject, used in a scientific study – similarly to who Deaf children are studied and experimented at times
Explanation: motif explained by ZaniBelle Hoglind
click pdf link below to see Rat / Hamster / Mouse / Guinea Pig motif artworks from summer 2016 challenge
mouse-hamster-devia-animal-motif-pdf
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Monkey
Monkey
Resistance: Audiology lab, cochlear implant mascot, primitive stage of evolution/social Darwinism
Explanation: motif explained by Gabrielle Majeri
click pdf link below to see Monkey motif artworks from summer 2016 challenge
pdfmonkey-devia-challenge
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Moth
Moth
Affirmative: Beings that need light, Deaf people interacting together in well-lighted places.
Examples: see works listed February 2016 De’VIA Challenge: Day 28 MOTH
Explanation: motif explained by ZaniBelle Hoglind
click pdf link below to see Moth motif artworks from summer 2016 challenge
pdf_moth_deviaanimal2016
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Octopus
Octopus
Resistance: Capitalism, power, seize control of Deaf community, AG Bell
Examples: see works listed https://deviacurr.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/day-25-octopus-motif-28-day-challenge.pdf
Explanation: motif explained by Jayden DeFalco
click pdf link below to see Octopus motif artworks from summer 2016 challenge
pdf_octopus_deviaanimal2016
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Owl
Owl
Affirmative: big eyes, keen vision, visionary, wise
Explanation: motif explained by Dylan Puent
click pdf link below to see Owl motif artworks from summer 2016 challenge
pdf_owl_deviaanimalchallenge
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Peacock
Peacock
Affirmative: Spectrum’s mascot, colorful spots in feather specks as beautiful deaf eyes, Beauty
Explanation: motif explained by Nicholle Bradach
click pdf link below to see Peacock motif artworks from summer 2016 challenge
peacock-final-pdf
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Snake/Serpent/Forked Tongue
Snake/Serpent/Forked Tongue
Resistance: evil, speech, false promise, lie
Explanation: motif explained by Leilani Games and Olivia Wascher
click pdf link below to see Snake motif artworks from summer 2016 challenge
final-snake-pdf
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Turtle
Turtle
Affirmative: positive experience. no ears (hearing) – “similar to deaf” sensing vibrations, hard shell, tough yet slow, and likes stability
Explanation: motif explained by Tyler Wascher
click pdf link below to see turtle motif artworks from summer 2016 challenge
turtle-pdf
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click pdf to see a few artworks using all of the animal motifs
