Artist: Jon Savage
Medium: Video Art
Duration: 20 minutes
Structure: 23 ASL poetry sequences
Format: Single-channel video with optional looping installation
Sound: Intentionally silent — no audio track
ASL Poetry Video Art is a 20-minute immersive video experience featuring 23 sequences of American Sign Language poetry layered with English poetic text, original visuals, and rhythmic pacing.
Created by Deaf artist Jon Savage, the work enters a visual world where movement becomes meaning and language takes shape through the body. Each segment explores a distinct emotional moment, ranging from joy and resilience to sorrow and vulnerability.
The work is intentionally silent, with no voice, narration, music, or audio track. It centers the expressive clarity of ASL through handshape, facial expression, color, timing, and visual rhythm, offering a meditation on identity, culture, and emotional fluency through Deaf eyes.
Jon Savage shares why he created ASL Poetry Video Art and how ASL, movement, rhythm, expression, color, and video come together as an artistic medium.
Jon Savage is a Deaf contemporary artist from San Diego whose practice spans painting, photography, cinematography, performance, and time-based media. His work combines bold experimentation with a deeply visual approach to communication.
His Deaf identity is central to his creative practice. Through ASL, movement, color, and visual storytelling, Savage builds connections between language, culture, emotion, and contemporary art.
ASL Poetry Video Art is available for galleries, museums, film and video festivals, universities, arts programs, and cultural or educational events.
For exhibitions, screenings, educational programs, licensing, acquisition, or presentation information, contact Jon Savage Gallery.
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