The work of Christine Sun Kim is inspired and informed by her experience of the world as a deaf woman, artist, mother, and partner. This 99U talk, delivered in ASL and interpreted live at Alice Tully Hall by Beth Staehle, asks all creatives to consider how their outputs are colored by their own experiences, abilities, and empathy:

How empathy for her hearing partner and baby informs her work
How she better understands sound through illustrated diagrams
Why a framework of “house rules” is essential to any creative process

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