October 29, 2007
Me and my grandmother on the 1st day of Sukkot holiday. Uzi Buzgalo 2007
This is Uzi Buzgalo’s other Devia artwork recently completed. This is a remarkable example of how a Deaf individual self empowers by accomplishing something on his own and enjoys the ownership. This is in reference to my previous vlog discussion about Deaf empowerment issues, Difference between being self empowered and empowered by others. Instead of having to be with his all hearing families to celebrate Sukkot holiday, a Jewish tradition to build huts and tents, he stayed with his grandmother to build his own little one. His grandmother remains in his fondest memory for using Moroccan gestures and home signs that provided the foundation of his language development in his early childhood. You can notice his grandmother holding the chair steadily to allow her 10 year old Deaf grandson (Uzi) build his hut and self empower himself this way while his families celebrate Sukkot in the far distance as can be seen in the upper left of the painting.
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