#auditory limbo

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"A FREE CONSULTATION WITH MR. SILVERTON"

Late 19th-century invitation card found on eBay.

Promising a “cure for deafness” without surgery, Rev. E.J. Silverton travelled town to town offering false hope to those desperate for sound.

Today, it reads like a relic—quack medicine and bold typography. But behind it is something more familiar:

Signal disguised as care. Noise packaged as salvation.

For many of us, deafness isn’t something to be cured, but a state to be understood—lived, navigated, shaped.

This piece will appear in Process Zine #00 as a nod to the long, messy history of miscommunication, exploitation, and the search for meaning in silence.

What does the modern version of this look like?

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// red shift is your red the same as my read?

Two childhood drawings. One colour we all think we know.

But red means lips. Red means warning. Red means wrong. We read mouths but not always the message. We see red but never the same one twice.

These inserts will appear in the final black & white zine with red hand-printed linocuts—a qualia glitch. a lip-read loop.

// signal in colour // process = play