DANDELION
This gorgeous hyperrealistic work by Chuck Baird is inspired by Clayton Valli’s ASL poem “Dandelions”.
In celebration of Chuck Baird’s birthday, for a limited time we are offering 11x14 matted paper prints which are usually only available at in person events. Don’t miss out on this special offer at $50.
24x36 Stretched Canvas prints are $600
16x20 Stretched Canvas prints are $300
This gorgeous hyperrealistic work by Chuck Baird is inspired by Clayton Valli’s ASL poem “Dandelions”.
In celebration of Chuck Baird’s birthday, for a limited time we are offering 11x14 matted paper prints which are usually only available at in person events. Don’t miss out on this special offer at $50.
24x36 Stretched Canvas prints are $600
16x20 Stretched Canvas prints are $300
This gorgeous hyperrealistic work by Chuck Baird is inspired by Clayton Valli’s ASL poem “Dandelions”.
In celebration of Chuck Baird’s birthday, for a limited time we are offering 11x14 matted paper prints which are usually only available at in person events. Don’t miss out on this special offer at $50.
24x36 Stretched Canvas prints are $600
16x20 Stretched Canvas prints are $300
The lovely and maligned dandelion can be used in art without any deep meaning. Many people who first see this piece assume it is not related to Deaf Culture or Deaf people. But it is a wonderful example of De’VIA. De’VIA means art from a Deaf perspective. Chuck Baird made this piece for his friend, Clayton Valli the last year before Clayton died of AIDS. Clayton Valli created a poem in ASL called DANDELIONS in which he compares Deaf people to the many stamens that blow off the “puff ball” phase of the dandelion. He compares hearing people with the land owner who wants to get rid of them by mowing them down. We are left with the message that Deaf people will stay in our world in the same way that Dandelions can’t be eradicated. Baird’s “Dandelion" is an excellent example of how something visual can be culturally related as a symbol without a direct explanation. This is De’VIA through and through from the “father” of De’VIA. Some see this and think it is a photo of an actual dandelion, not realizing the original is a painted image. It is therefore an excellent example of a master of hyperrealism at work.