Christine Sun Kim
Three variations of “See Zero”
2018
Charcoal and oil pastel on paper
125×125 cm each
Photo credit: 2019 White Space Beijing and Yang Wei

THE BLANK CONTEMPORARY ART
99 WORDS WITH CHRISTINE SUN KIM

Since American Sign Language (ASL) does not have a written component like most other languages, we use English words as loan words (loosely known as “deaf English”) to express some signed visual concepts as written text via email or on social media.
“See Zero” could mean three things: “I see nothing,” “I can’t see a thing,” and “There’s nothing to see here.”