Iris Nelia Aranda
Iris Nelia Aranda is a Panamanian-born professional artist in traditional mediums from acrylics and oils to ceramics. Some of her works depict a life experience as one of eyeing people. She describes herself, "Born deaf, I experience the earth visually." She pays attention to lineal details of life and the natural world that she brings her observation into art.
(c) Iris Nelia Aranda. Photograph by Jolanta Lapiak with her permission at Milwaukee, 2008.
Aranda refers her triptych work of art above to the experience of eyeing people whose world is visually-oriented and language is visual-manual. She added a third eye which can be interpreted in several ways. Visual is the center or the primary mode of the senses among eyeing people.
The left and the right panels appear to be a subtle shape of the ears. Yet, eyes are placed within the shape of an ear. It suggests that people rely on the eyes as the primary means of communication and information in this world instead of using the ears.
Aranda received her masters of Applied Arts Design from the University of Panama in 1997.