A Life Reconfigured by Silence The trajectory of Nicolas Dorigny was redirected by a physical change that many might have found devastating. Born in Paris, he began his adult life following the path of legal studies, a profession for which his education had prepared him. However, at the age of thirty, the onset of deafness forced a departure from the law and a turn toward the arts. This transition was not merely a change in occupation but a complete reconstruction of his sensory engagement with the world. He did not approach the copper plate as an amateur. Trained by his father, Michel Dorign…