The magic of touching brush to canvas is something Sanya Hameed had never thought she would ever experience as a visually impaired person.
"I lost my vision when I was about seven years old and until then I had never painted", says Hameed, who is based in Hyderabad. "After I went blind, I gave up on the idea completely. I didn't think painting was meant for people like me". So, when Hameed heard about a day-long painting workshop on the theme of landscapes at the L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), she was astonished. "Painting for visually impaired? Impossible, I thought." Sanya overcame that skepticism and signed up with a friend. The experience, she says, was mind blowing. "I had heard of creative people, but I never thought it could be me", she says the wonder evident in her voice nearly a year after she attended the workshop. "I painted a landscape using tactile materials like a glue gun to form mountains and trees. Just holding the brush and exploring with it felt amazing, I didn't even know there were different types of brushes!" Read on https://newzhook.com/story/21971 Thanks & Regards Ramya Venkitesh |Head New Initiatives Newz Hook <http://www.newzhook.com/> Newz Hook is now on WhatsApp <https://newzhook.com/whatsapp> Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
