Tactile Drawings, Ethics, and a Sanctuary: Metaphoric Devices Invented by a Blind Woman

• Published in: Perception (London) Vol. 42; no. 6; pp. 658 - 668
• Main Author: Kennedy, John M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.01.2013; Pion
• Subjects: Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Blindness - psychology; Emotions; Ethics; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Judgment; Medical sciences; Metaphor; Neoplasms, Multiple Primary - psychology; Neoplasms, Multiple Primary - surgery; Ophthalmology; Orientation; Perception; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Reality Testing; Retinal Neoplasms - psychology; Retinal Neoplasms - surgery; Retinoblastoma - psychology; Retinoblastoma - surgery; Social Environment; Stereognosis; Tactile perception; Touch; Vision disorders; outline; blind; metaphor; tactile pictures; Human; Vision disorder; Cognition; Metaphor; Pictural drawing; Case study; Ethics; Tactile sensitivity; Eye disease; Blindness; Perception; Woman
• ISSN: 0301-0066; 1468-4233
• DOI: 10.1068/p7480

Until the last two decades, indications that blind people would understand and create pictures were sparse. EW, a totally blind adult, who began making raised-line drawings in her thirties, created a portfolio of several hundred sketches in nine years. She selects her own topics and invents her trea...