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June 22, 2003
a split second

there, there is was again. my eyes went blurry for a split second. I am back now, but a bit more aware of my surroundings. What if they keep doing that?
I sometimes imagine what will happen once my eyes will stop working well enough and once my hands stop working well enough.
Will I be able to still speak? Will I be able to tell stories? Maybe the stories from a blurry and intangible world? I wonder.
What if I just spent a week with my eyes closed? On which day would I be able to just go out and get something to eat, to visit friends? To work?
Would I be able to work?
I am not sure where I wrote it down some years ago. I think I had this dream in which I was completely blind and yet still making art. And it was art that would be seen for the first time when opened to the observer. I might have had this dream after working with a friend from Norway, who lost his sight when he was quite young. He was a faster walker than me, actually, and his hobby was running. He came to Frankfurt to learn German at the Goethe Institut in 1995. We signed him up with the Frankfurt Runners Club. He would just hold on to somebody and run with them. An amazing man.
Hmm, maybe I could sculpt? I do not need hands or eyes to sculpt. Not sure.
All in focus now... back to work.

Comments

i share this re-occurring fear of losing sight. conversely, I often wonder about others perceptions, specifically color. do people see my designs as i intended? I once heard women see many more colors than men. can women see more in my designs than i can? I want to see what others see. must stop thinking.

Posted by: griff on June 23, 2003 01:58 PM

I knew someone whose mother had a degenerative eye disease that eventually would leave her blind. her field of vision got narrower and narrower over the years, but she also could see ranges of colors far, far beyond the normal human range. she was quite wealthy and an artist, so even to paint her house, she had to hire other artists, fine art painters, just to paint her (rather enormous) house because otherwise the slight shade/color variations that only she or someone with a highly trained eye could se, would make her batty. She was also an incredibly kind person.

Posted by: on June 23, 2003 03:44 PM

Witold Witold :) :) :)

G5!!

G5!!!!!

Posted by: T Parrot on June 23, 2003 09:11 PM

but poor g4 :( it's all the way on the bottom of the page now.is the dual g4 faster or the single g5?

Posted by: on June 23, 2003 09:18 PM
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