She saw the woman in the wheelchair and recognized more than an image; she saw every moment a Deaf person has been treated as incomplete, as something divided, as a body missing pieces.
And yet, in that brokenness, she found a truth: the problem is not inside us.
It is in the gaze that fragments us.
The painting with the woman in the wheelchair reminded her of something powerful:
that beneath all the discrimination, beneath all the pieces society tries to break apart,
The Deaf community remains whole, equal, connected, and unbroken in spirit.