Description about the painting:

Play and Profit
Day 25 of 28 Days
Octopus motif, resistance
18 inch by 24 inch
oil on canvas
by Nancy Rourke
‪#‎DeVIA28Challenge‬

This painting shows two different things happening here. When an octopus does a newborn hearing screening,
a Deaf baby gets a cochlear implant and a profit is made. Each time a Deaf baby gets a CI, a Deaf Culture is taken away. Deaf Disempowerment (credited to Trudy Suggs.) There is a huge hole on the Deaf body. Somebody pulled the power from the Deaf person.This is AGB elephant. When a profit is made, the octopus scores, like a game "score four." There are swirls (suctions). Swirls are cochlear. This painting is inspired by two paintings "Deaf Disempowerment" and "The Newborn Hearing Screening."