Jim and Thomas too, your comments translates exactly the message I want to 
trnamit with my drawing. A sort of angel flying over world difficulties, and 
not the currently image of visually impaired persons, painted like beggars 
(Breughel "les aveugles")
http://www.brunette.brucity.be/fond/eandre/breugel/entree.html

I thank your so much. I'm sure now I was'nt wrong.




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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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