Acrylic on wood, ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

This is part of the Deaf culture works, and tells the story of Growing Up Deaf. This one was the child, Chelle (myself), was riding on a double decker bus in Melbourne with other kindergarten friends. This was in 1982 when I was 3. Mum was trying to get me onto the bus safely. I was holding my pink teddy bear. The painting on the wood is a metaphor for the underlying solid and immutable fact of my deafness, over which I paint a happy and normal childhood. This artwork is currently in a solo exhibition at the Incinerator Gallery until 1st March, in Moonee Ponds in Melbourne.