Role: DVD covers, DVD menu, title design
Story: A Sea of Stories is about hearing children of deaf parents (CODAs) and about how these children built their identities during the latter part of the 20th century. There were no professional interpreters and the children had to act as their parents’ ears and voice as well as having to relate things that they did not yet even understand themselves. Hearing became a burden since some messages that reached the children’s ears were ones in which their parents were belittled as well as wondered at because of being different.
How is a child able to build their identity when acting as a messenger between two mutually strange and sometimes hostile cultures? What is the child’s linguistic identity like? And why have Sign Language speakers not always welcomed codas as members of their reference group either?
