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Richard Seeker 
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xoomthetruth.blogspot.com The picture you are looking at was painted by a man who has never seen a tree. He's never seen a person carrying a pail. He's never seen a mountain or a flower. He's never seen anything, because he was born without eyes! Esref Armagan, a Turkish painter, has turned the art world on its ear. I first saw him as part of a Discovery Channel special called, The Real Supehumans. They interviewed him and showed several of his paintings. It's crazy to watch him do this stuff because he has nothing to reference, but he dips his fingers in the paint and proceeds to knock out some really impressive stuff: He uses a special rubberised tablet, called a "Sewell raised line drawing kit". This device allows him to draw lines that rise off his paper as tiny puckers, so that he can detect them with his fingertips. And so he draws the road and the poles: one hand holding the pencil, the other tracing along behind, like surrogate eyes, "observing" the image as it is being laid down. A minute or so later, the picture is done. Pascual-Leone and Amedi shake their heads in wonder. So, we ask, how do you know how long these poles should be as they recede? I was taught, he says. Not by any formal teacher, but by casual comments by friends and acquaintances. How do you know about shadows? He learned that too. He confides that for a long time he figured that if an object was red, its shadow would be red too. "But I was told it wasn't," he says. But how do you know about red? He knows that there's an important visual quality to seen objects called "colour" and that it varies from object to object. He's memorised what has what colour and even which ones clash. The second part of Armagan's segment showed Dr. John Kennedy, psychologist and Director of Life Sciences at the University of Toronto, putting the sight challenged painter through a battery of tests. He passed all, including the final. A true test in perspective. Dr. Kennedy takes Armagan to Florence, Italy, where he painted the Baptistery. The Baptistry was Filippo Brunelleschi's, perspective masterpiece. Many consider it the birthplace of perspective, artistically speaking. The rest of the show was pretty cool too. There was a guy who could withstand freezing temperatures for extended periods, a woman who could "see" and "taste" music, and a human calculator that was a real freakshow. It's not paranormal, but it's really cool. http://xoomthetruth.blogspot.com/2008/07/seeing-is-believing.html Attachment: _gallery_armagan_images_room1_esref1ba.jpg (Downloaded 8 times)
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