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Prancing Shadow Connecting Worlds, Tiffany D. Randle
Prancing Shadow Connecting Worlds, Tiffany D. Randle
The STEAM Journal
The practice of being conscious about the environment and how shadows, light, and movement create an intellectual space for different interpretations allows the viewer to make their own associations. Concrete, the ground that people of different shades walk on, to one person can look and seem like an ethereal and unknown environment, but to another may seem like a moving body of liquid. When artists stop and look at the simple things such a concrete, and water, or passersby they can capture a moment in time that transcends the mundane and suddenly the artist is in a position to present …
Losing Vision: What Can Art Gain In The Absence Of Sight?, Seana Rothman
Losing Vision: What Can Art Gain In The Absence Of Sight?, Seana Rothman
Scripps Senior Theses
This paper addresses the relationship between the visually impaired and the visual arts. The first section focuses on the scientific background of sight and vision disorders, as well as touch. Current research indicates that the blind can process complex spatial information through touch, just as the sighted can through vision. Thus visual art can be accessible to visually impaired people if it contains tactile information, such as 3D shapes or textures. However, galleries traditionally display art that visitors are only able to interpret visually, excluding the visually impaired and blind. My Fall project aims to challenge the dominant visual mode …