Can Blind People Draw?

(youtube) Tommy Edison, who has been blind since birth, response to the popular request to draw various objects based on how he thinks they look.
bareboards2says...

*promote the sense of humor.

This reminds me of art class in 7th grade, where we had to look at the model, keep our pen on the paper, and never ever look down.

I was a much more interesting artist when my conscious brain got out of the way. All of us were Picassos!

chingalerasays...

Blind from births' are surprisingly uplifting to be around-They have no sense of any loss of senses, they have never experienced anything but an inconvenience which usually stems from the sighted dealing with their own egos and frustrations in providing for the "handicapped."

As a child, I remember a primer given to me by a neighbor on my street (also blind from birth) on the perception and interpretation of color-I was convinced that he, having never seen colors himself beyond descriptions from those around him HAD to know at least what the color black "looked" like because that was the predominant color seen on my visual field under artificial deprivation (dark cloth on eyes, etc.). I demanded that he had seen black because he was blind-I kept trying new and improved ways to describe to him the experience of "seeing" the color black all the while he kept laughing more and more!!

legacy0100said:

cute and depressingly sad at the same time... oh my, if it wasn't for that man's jolly nature I probably would've felt awful.

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