 Many De'Via works can be defined as resistance art, which is a recent phenomenon in Deaf culture.Betty Miller's piece "Ameslan Prohibited" (1972) depicts two shackled hands and chopped fingertips; this powerful image encouraged more Deaf people to reveal their childhood experiences of Audism and oralism through art.In many of Chuck Baird's artwork, he cleverly incorporates ASL handshapes into the shapes of objects to which they refer.