The Deaf Mind

This painting is about how a Deaf person thinks, perceives, visualizes, sees, understands with a Deaf mind, perhaps in a complex way. The signs represent ‘mind’, ‘penetrate’, ‘visual’, and ‘understand.’ The person in the painting is in deep thinking. This painting is on the book cover, Introduction to American Deaf Culture, Oxford University Press, Author Thomas K. Holcomb, First Edition, October 2012