was on PBS yesterday(Tuesday June 30) It was a film from Rodney Evans, who continues to make films despite having retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic condition in which his vision gradually deteriorats. He is not the only visual artist to make this surprising decision and populates the film with other artists with low vision...mostly in visual arts, but the film features a dance performance and a writing teacher too.
Some of these artists feel that they populate some kind of third space between blindness and vision, which, once they got over the initial shock and pain of sometimes-sudden vision loss, seems to provide artistic opportunity(at least an opportunity to share a point of view that is novel.)
I think those of us with mobility impairments might have a lot to...perhaps not emulate, but take a lesson from in this kind of perspective, although maybe I'd have held it longer if I'd been an established artist in a city that was hungry for art instead of one that remains skeptical of it.
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