https://www.dailyserving.com/2011/05/javier-tellez-letter-on-the-blind-for-the-use-of-those-who-see/ an international forum for contemporary art Sun, 23 Jun 2013 17:18:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.13 https://www.dailyserving.com/2011/05/javier-tellez-letter-on-the-blind-for-the-use-of-those-who-see/comment-page-1/#comment-2854 Sat, 28 May 2011 23:48:43 +0000 http://dailyserving.com/?p=16705#comment-2854 I an an artist who WAS blind for 5.5 years. It was HELL & it was interesting & it was challenging & considering all the MD’s said it would be for the rest of my life–5.5 years was not so bad…
I would really like to SEE this film! I guess I have til the end of July to get to Austin.
As one who was Once-Blind I have news for you: blindness IS an alternative way of experiencing the world. When I was blind, I met an artist who’d been blinded by a bullet in the brain–he completely turned away from art & became a wordsmith..a poet…as that one participant, ‘the visual concept no longer existed for him. It wass ‘dead.’
For ME–I was brain-injured by Acute Toxic Chemical Exosure & so determined to keep experiencing art–I went to studios & galleries with sighted guides who’d describe..touch what I could while the colors were being described to me…I even became a docent in a major museum whose collection I knew pretty well so I could get a lot of people to describe art to me..I KEPT TRYING to SEE & succeeded in getting my brain to wire & rewire…with a lot of work, alternative medicine, and DESIRE I got back my sight…& even after almost 8 years–every day I SEE is a JOY!

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