A congenitally-blind painter makes a scientist rethink the way we see the way we see...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3AgO6H0H98]YouTube - Extraordinary people, The artist with no eyes, Esref Armagan[/ame]

Very Touching...

Zackly!

Fantastic, thanks.

Very interesting.

So the assumption of the scientists was that without visual input there would be/could be no visual imagination? or no kinaesthetic representation? or no transferring of 3 dimensions to 2? or what exactly??

I notice that as well as perspective, he also drew more sides than were visible (he drew 5).

Greg

Raises the question for me of why some seeing artists ignore or ignored perspective & I wonder if it isn't that they didn't think so much about dimension as you naturally do when using touch. For example, I was curious how he could know what he had already drawn & so drew some lines on paper with a pencil & was surprised how easy it is to feel them.

be interesting to know if he feels colours and enjoys the feel of his own and other people's finished pieces. if not, I wonder why he paints rather than, for example, sculpts

Thanks for the video, Linda