We See the World without Seeing

When I was doing my research, I realized that the world of the blind people I imagined before is very different from their real world. This is the first time I have truly entered the world of the blind. Two of the truths deeply shocked me.

The first one is the awareness of “black”. “I would be happy if I knew what black is.” This is what a blind person said in an interview. The world of the blind is colorless. For congenital blind people, they don’t have the ability to “see”. they can never really understand what “black” is. “Black” is the visual perception of an environment without light and is the result of a “seeing”. People who completely lose their visual function do not know what is black. The person whose eyes has no ability to the light, has no sense to black, except sound, smell, and so on.

The second point is the perception of the blind person to the world. For example, when I was watching an interview, the host asked a blind girl how she imagined the hot of summer. She said she would think of a telephone pole under the sun, it must be very hot. Based on these two points, I took a set of photos to show the world from the “view” of the blind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A leaf fallen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The snow is melting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feeling the cold of winter