Abstract
Blind people can invent drawings for material objects like cups, and matters esthetic, like glory at the climax of a story. In sketches of cups, their drawings are realistic, using lines for surface edges of profiles, and borders of cross-sections. They are metaphoric if they show purely mental events. These points are illustrated by two drawings by EW, a blind woman with two notable uses of a fountain device. One shows glory in the opera Aida and one is for memories overflowing.
Highlights
Blind people can invent drawings for material objects like cups, and matters esthetic, like “glory” at the climax of a story
“There is no doubt that raised line drawings can communicate useful spatial information” (Heller, Calceterra, Burson and Tyler, 1996; page 310)
What kinds of referents might they aim for? Here, it is claimed that the range includes mental events such as impressions and “glory” in an opera
Summary
Blind people can invent drawings for material objects like cups, and matters esthetic, like “glory” at the climax of a story. As in joy and frustration, and the memories, ethical events, as in EW drawings of a sanctuary and a memorial (Kennedy, 2009), and yet another is esthetic, requiring discussion of Figure 2 here. Lines depict a surface’s edge (Figure 3).
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