I am legally blind and love to draw. How does that work? Well, usually I draw with the assistance of an extremely powerful electronic magnifier simply known as a CCTV and work on a piece of the picture at a time. Then, of course, there is the beauty of computer graphics programs where images can be enlarged. I still don’t know if what I see is exactly what other people see when they look at my art—I’ve had someone tell me she liked how so and so part of a picture was green, and I wondering ‘What? Green? Where?’—but then again, I’m not sure it’s possible for anyone to see exactly what another does. That is, after all, one thing that makes the world amazing.
In my art, I wish to celebrate the little things we often overlook or take for granted and the things that shape us and the world we share. The mundane can become amazing if we give it the chance.
I also love the fantastical. I grew up on Chinese folktales, Greek mythology, and other such stories where things are often not as they seem. Some say fantasy has no bearing on real life because it is, by definition, a figment of the imagination, but I think truth may come in many shapes. It all comes down to how we choose to look at the world.
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