Hello Slavsky

I don't make any art but I have a few art related stories.

I know a local artist because we worked together at a Christian camp for kids, and so she decided to paint me an abstract painting with a Bible verse on it. The paint is puff paint coated on the canvas in very firm lines and swirls.

One of my best friends at the moment is an artist, and she has written Braille with cross stitch. I have yet to purchase one of her works but I keep bugging her about it, she said that when she was done her series I could see all of them and choose. At first I found the Cross Stitch Braille hard to read but I understood it after going over it for a while.

I once went to the Louvre museum in Paris. There, they have many Braille plaques, an audio tour, and they have a room with miniatures of sculptures for disabled people to get the full experience of what the sculpture would be like because most of the time I could only figure out reaching up to midway on sculptures.

Art to me usually has more to do with books, music, and drama than it does with painting and sculpture though I do think everyone has a creative work inside them.

I'm blind in my left eye, and I was legally blind in my right up until about two months ago. I now have about 70% vision in my right eye to work with :)

I've always been a pretty creative person, ever since I can remember I've loved drawing, painting, working with clay, playing instruments, singing- the list goes on. For me, art has always been a way for me to release all of the things I keep inside in a cathartic and non self destructive way.

I, ironically, paint and draw eyes alot- my own eye (before it went blind), stock photos of eyes from the internet; hell, even my dog's eye. I wouldn't say my techniques are much different from a fully sighted person's, but I suppose the motivation behind what I create is different.

Your project sounds really cool and I would love to see the finished product some day!

Art to me means music. Any kind of creativity; even writing is art.

This looks like a decent project though!

I have always wanted to paint and draw, mostly draw, but my abilities have always been way below average. I wonder how much my visual impairment (which developed to blindness over time since I was a small child) has to do with that.

Nowadays, art for me has a lot to do with harmony. I can see very little and I don't think I can truly appreciate works of painted and drawn art, but it is pleasing to see harmonic colors and lines even if all I can see is a blurry shape here and there.

I enjoy tactile, olfactory and hearing art more, even though they are rarer and sometimes not even considered as arts. I love some textures and how they interact with harmony. I particularly love the feeling of water moving and it's even better when it moves to a rhythm.

I love perfumes and the art involved in making them. I wish I could learn more about it in a practical way, but alas, everything related to it is so expensive and far away.

Bearing art is the most common among these three. It's not only music. Music is a great form of art, but there's also all the harmonic sounds and air vibrations that aren't classified as music. Got instance, I enjoy listening to audiobooks and I enjoy it even more when the narrator has a pleasant tone and rhythm and when the sound is high quality.