Artist Talk: Creating with Mental Imagery
Start date
Thursday, November 14, 2019, 1:00pmEnd date
Thursday, November 14, 2019, 2:30pmLocation
Rockland Center for the Arts
27 South Greenbush Road
West Nyack, NY 10994
United States
The "Visions of Awareness" exhibition explores the human need for imagery through art by legally blind and low vision artists as well as tactile-sighted artists. Vision does not solely rely on the function of our eyes, it starts in the brain as an idea or thought. When a blind person says "I imagine," it means he too has an inner representation of external realities. Vision, even in the absence of sight, is a need, above all, to visualize. Why does a blind person take photographs, paint, or sculpt? One can't belong to this world if one cannot imagine it in his own way. These artists prove that vision does not come solely from eyesight and discuss their imagery.