Hi friends!!!
I am Alisha Esha’s coordinator.
Today I really had a wonderful experience. Today I went to Junta
Blind School, Gurgaon for painting workshop for the children with
major and minor sight loss.
The children were encouraged that
even those with little sight to take up this wonderful pastime. It is
very relaxing and a great way of enjoyment for the children.
I had assumed that blind people would have little interest or talent
in creating images. I was very wrong. It is clear that blind people
can appreciate the use of outlines and perspective to describe the
arrangement of objects and other surfaces in space. But pictures are
more than literal representations. For them the
importance of touch and feeling
is more when creating art without sight.
They felt
that they would always be an inferior way of creating art when
compared to what could be accomplished with eyesight. But more than
this though their entire perception has been changed. Children were
very happy and excited. Students asked me to repeat this workshop
again. And the best part was that even though they were having
difficulties in making the drawings they were not ready to give up.
They said they will slowly connect with this new thing they started
learning. ;
It was a really wonderful experience for both me and students.
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