Justin Perez

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Flight of the Maverick (Visual Vernacular)

Justin Perez

(United States of America, 1990)

Justin Perez is an American poet who, born deaf himself, has been fascinated all his life by performance art and the various modes of storytelling that exist in American Sign Language (ASL). During his teenage years, he himself developed new performance techniques in sign language and also perfected corresponding facial expressions. Thus, he became adept at visual vernacular, a poetic form of e...