For some reason in the wee hours of this morning, I was thinking about blindness, the idea of going blind at this point in my life. I decided I would not give up art, maybe do music more... but I would still paint.
Blind painters are a bit of a novelty, I've looked at a few. They're always trying to be representational, they work it out to fake painting recognizably. This is such a mistake. It ends up looking kitsch. Basically not being able to see lends nothing to trying to represent realism.
However... if they knew anything about conceptual art, it's actually an opportunity to make important work. It would be about abstraction, movement and the process of painting. Someone not cluttered by visuality doesn't have owe anything to it. Or maybe it could be about the memory of seeing.
They're catering to the dumb masses by not exploring abstraction (the only art they could do), shackled to the representation. So far I've seen blind painters basically do colour by numbers. It's child's play. I wish they'd get more conceptual about it, it's rich with noteworthy possibilities.
I'll try a blindfolded painting, maybe it will work into a project at school. I'll post what I come up with, ABSTRACTION that is. Although, if something representation came out of it miraculously, that'd be really cool.
That is that....
