For deaf signing people in Viet Nam (and most elsewhere in the world), having both a literal and figurative "voice" to engage in self-advocacy requires the use of sign language interpreters.
Mr. Freud, a grandson of Sigmund Freud and a brother of the British television personality Clement Freud, was already an important figure in the small London art world when, in the immediate postwar years, he embarked on a series of portraits that established him as a potent new voice in figurative art.
Already displaying a distinct artistic voice somewhere between figurative portraiture and post-impressionism, it's a wonder that Stetson's isn't even halfway through high school.
The story begins at a Cedars-Sinai Medeskl Center adminsions desk in 1986 where Betty, beaten down by her battle with cancer, raises her loud voice and her figurative fist in defiance to an application that demands she list herself as single.
Blanco's voice – both actual and figurative – straddles multiple moods, alternating guttural hip-hop flow with an unexpectedly soulful falsetto and his own speaking voice.
Like these artists, loosely grouped under the banner of New Realism, Mr. Laderman was looking for new ways to make figurative art speak in a contemporary voice, despite the dominance of Pop Art, Minimalism and Conceptualism.
But movies are just as much about the voice of a director, even if only a figurative one.
Without that setting - figurative or otherwise - Smith's art feels like house music's queer voice repressed.
After all, writers habitually talk about "voice" and "shape" and "architecture" in ways that are more than merely figurative.
This organization has taken huge strides to reclaim voice hearing as a meaningful human experience; one which, for many of us, embodies figurative, emotional metaphors that communicate compelling information about pain and conflicts in our lives.
