blind painter
If you want to see something amazing, check this out. Esref Armagan is blind, and has been his entire life. Yet he is able to create paintings of objects easily recognizable by anyone. New Scientist has an article about the painter. He is being studied as a unique case that may reveal that sight is different than we ever expected.
His use of color, true, is remarkable. But what really threw me for a loop was this one. It feature true perspective! (the upper and lower lines of the bridge ‘point’ to the horizon). I don’t know about most people, but I had to learn about perspective in a classroom. It would have taken me some serious experimentation to come across it on my own. Sure, I probably could have eventually. But it would have been trial and error for a long time. The blind painter does not have the luxury of trial and error, because he can not go back to previously finished paintings and see what he did wrong. This man must have known about perspective instinctively.
Amazing!