Grigely, who became deaf as a result of a childhood accident, uses as his raw material the written conversations that he has in his daily life; the scraps of paper on which hearing people have written notes, names, or phrases in order to 'converse' with him when he cannot read their lips. He then uses these scraps ofconversations to build wall pieces and table-top tableaux that all take as their subject matter the ineluctable differences between speech and writing, and reading and listening. He also doesphotographs of hands writing notes, that he considers as portraits.
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