The experience of induced blindness and spatial-temporal perception in blind drawing

Abstract

From the experience of creating blind drawings, this study was born, based on reflections on artistic practice.In the experience of induced blindness it focuses on the spatial and temporal perception understood in the making. The predominance of temporal perception in the face of disorientation of spatial perception led to the research of neurologist Oliver Sacks regarding the formation of the perception of blind people who resume vision or not. A parallel is then established about the perception of induced blindness and how the realization of the series of blind drawings is conducted. Giorgio Agamben's concept of "contemporary" helps to think of blindfolded darkness as a way of being fully active. It is recognized in this non-seeing the ability to become awake and sharpen the perception to the present moment, by offering the ability to perceive time and space in an enlarged and intense way.