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Remy Closset wrote:
> A poster for my association for blinds. That means that blind people have to
> learn walking in their environment with the help of locomotion teachers.
> The objective is to increase their cognitive senses. The leaf is here to
> symbolize all what the blind person has to mind out, by sample, warw of the
> sun on the skin, noise of the wind and so on.
> Critics and ideas are welcome.
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I will work hard to keep my English easy.
It is certainly a very interesting picture.
The subject and narrative method of the picture is served well by the
particular mix of prominent textures together with raytraced tidiness.
It procuces a slightly surreal, mental reality for the picture.
The texture of the pavements primarily, and the leaves secondarily, play
a complex role. They serve to give the picture realism through
specificity. But, the person walking is just as insulated from their
direct tactile presence as he/she is from their visual presence.
Yet,... yet, it is precisely the tactile feedback from the cane that
guides the person. It makes a very poignant sequence of contradictions.
The frozen fall of the leaves, the person's stride, and the momentary
suspension of the cane just before it touches, drives the narrative or
story of the picture. That about to touch moment shown with the cane is
the literal and figurative center point.
The leaves are more difficult to understand. I think this is the reason
some commentors have pointed to their scale or color as being not quite
fitting. Those points aside, they still add ambiguity. Are they
falling, or being blown? If I understood you, they are intended to
symbolize everything that eludes the cognitive grasp of the blind? And
more so because they might reveal themselves briefly when accidently
touching the skin? Taking that into consideration they deliver a stark
message. It is a beautiful and powerful metaphor. One wonders if it
might be pushed further. But maybe not.
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