by Ryan Seslow | Jul 18, 2018 | Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Digital Art, GIF, News, Useful Articles / Essays |
I work predominantly with the hearing world in both public city and private colleges. Strangely, after many years of college teaching I have never once had a Deaf or Hard of Hearing student. I find this statistic perplexing and very curious. Were there people like...
by Ryan Seslow | Jun 30, 2018 | Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Digital Art, GIF, News, Teaching, Useful Articles / Essays |
Nothing happens overnight. Inner and outer life changes are really a sum total of activating trigger points that disguise themselves as people, places, situations and occurrences. I keep reminding myself. We can only speak and communicate from own experiences and then...
by Ryan Seslow | Jun 18, 2018 | Animation, Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Digital Art, GIF, News, Useful Articles / Essays |
Hearing aids are tools, and in a lot of circumstances they are incredibly helpful. I could make a long list about the pros of hearing aids and will do so soon. However, in just as many circumstances they are consistently utterly frustrating, limited, over-stated in...
by Ryan Seslow | Jun 4, 2018 | Animation, Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Digital Art, Exhibition, GIF, News, Useful Articles / Essays
(Click on the images below to activate the gallery) Communicating My Deaf & Hard of Hearing Self Welcome. The art works produced in this exhibition examine and express my identity as a Deaf and Hard of Hearing person. It has been a long road. This body of work is...
by Ryan Seslow | Jun 4, 2018 | Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Digital Art, News, Useful Articles / Essays |
The Non-Auditory Sensory Other I learned how to draw at an early age because I needed to see what I couldn’t hear. I learned how to “see” really fast. I learned how to draw the contour lines of objects, faces, bodies and things with my eyes. They were maps and points...
by Ryan Seslow | May 14, 2018 | Animation, Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, GIF, News, Useful Articles / Essays |
The More I Missed, The More I Made.. I am overcoming a lot of my fears by directly putting myself in public positions to have to talk about how hearing loss and being deaf has affected my life. As a college professor (yep, for 14.5 years now) I have to be in front of...
by Ryan Seslow | May 11, 2018 | Animation, Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, GIF, News, Useful Articles / Essays |
Fears faced Continued, this is a series 🙂 As a deaf and hard of hearing person I have spent most of my life pretending that I wasn’t. It took me a very long time to fully understand the psychology and behavioral aspects of my case in particularly. The psychological...
by Ryan Seslow | May 7, 2018 | Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Digital Art, Exhibition, GIF, News, Press, Useful Articles / Essays |
“Unraveling & Integrating 40 years of Missed Communication” This is a “Simulated Proposal” of a new Exhibition that I would very much like to mount. If you are interested in further information please contact me directly via e-mail – ryan (at)...
by Ryan Seslow | May 2, 2018 | Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, Digital Art, GIF, News, Teaching, Useful Articles / Essays |
“The Attempted Recomposition of a Synthetic Auditory Miscommunication” is an Illustration and Animated GIF series of new work examining my identity as a Deaf and Hard of Hearing person. In a previous post two days ago I began a long over due process of...
by RYAN SESLOW | Mar 17, 2017 | Art, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, News, Teaching, Useful Articles / Essays |
It’s a beautiful thing to realize that my biggest self-inflicted deficit has become the means for higher awareness and the next chapter of my life. Heck, even if I was the last one to realize it. The discomfort of change has been brewing inside of me for some...
