Personal identity

Since we are looking into different people's identity, I decided to look into a part of my own personal identity.  I have been hearing impaired all my life so it it a very important to the person I have been and the person I am today and will be in the future.  I plan to become an Art Therapist for all people, including the deaf and hard of hearing  I was looking into the different hearing impaired inspired art work there is and to my surprise there was very little.  It surprised me because I know there are hearing impaired and deaf artists out there but a lot of their art does not reflect it.  Then on the other hand, it confuses me how there is the "debate" of disable and handicap individuals being lesser the the norm, when a lot of time these are the people that are rising up against all the odds. Just because you have a disability does not mean you can not be exceptional. Even Beethoven was deaf.

Identity

Identity 
I thought that all of the identity artists we leaned about were interesting. The two that I found most interesting were Cindy Sherman and Annu Matthews because of their work on identity and politics. With Cindy Sherman, I love that she models for all her own pictures and makes it appear as though she is different people. As for Annu Matthews, I found it very interesting that so many people were protesting the attack and this is the way she chose to to express her feelings on the matter.