03.09.01 - The First Flight Up
28th Clip. Title: The First Flight Up. 08:32 minutes long. Total: 2:40:18 hours.
This vid-clip of the deaf child’s first flight up . . . is posted in gratitude to Paddy Ladd who soared with his ideas. In 1992, Paddy walked into my deaf history classroom at Fremont and out with a synopsis of the DC myth. In his inscription of my copy of his immeasurable “white” book, he wrote to me, “Thanks for inspiring me and keep exploring.” That inspired me even further to explore and work on this “odd” but profound “art-literature” project. The myth is so different that even its creator is grappling with it, trying to understand it while continuing its creation and expansion.
This clip is posted with homage and gratitude to our comrade-in-arms, Paddy, for being the first one of only two scholars from the “ivory tower” to cite the DC myth. The second person is coming up later (in 1996) in this list of gratitudes to people who crossed paths with me. Paddy Ladd is, to me, one of the “Deaf Adult” writing the collective “Leather Book” to smash to smithereen the prevaling oppression deaf people still are living in audistic (but lessening over the years) world. The only way to fight audism and make the world more “visi-centric” is to invite hearing people into our small (and sometimes closed) but growing world of signers by having them learn and embrace signing. Unbeknownst to themselves, the world will realize that becoming more “visi-aural” rather than too mono-aural is the answer in improving the human race.
Thank you, Paddy, for one of the carrots at the end of the string hanging from my stick guiding star for me to continue working on this myth.
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More coming here, pastel drawing of the deaf child gleefully riding VisMa. Pictures and drawings of the burning of Aris temple. And more are coming. Commentaries and questions, too. Father Time is needed to do them.
Everyone, have a safe and memorable celebration to end 2007 and welcome 2008.
HNY!