Christine Sun Kim

Danielle Linzer: Hello I’m Danielle Linzer, Christine Sun Kim's friend, and she asked me to voice this discussion of her drawings to you.

Hi, my name is Christine. For this new series, I am doing drawings that come in groups. I have actually borrowed a lot of different formats that are already out there in the world. These are things people are very familiar with such as memes, music, musical notation, subtitles, captions, English, written English.

I have five that are about Deaf rage, and one in the series is my specific Deaf rage that I've experienced in the art world. For us in the Deaf community, we totally know what it means, but it hasn't been something that we're really good at communicating to others. I think people need to know that they do have rage, that there is rage out there.

There are different levels and different amounts of rage. And in making the drawings I realized that kind of works with different mathematical angles: acute angles, an obtuse angle, those different amounts. Different rages. And I thought oh, that's a nice parallel.

I use sign language to communicate, but I also don't want my deafness to define my work, and so I've been hesitant to incorporate it or acknowledge it. Deaf Rage was my attempt to really speak on it, and initially it felt really heavy. And then after that, I don't know, it feels healing. Now I’m able to put my rage in so many words and in so many angles, and I could see the information, it's there in front of me, it's visually clear.