Blindness by Elizabeth Leggett

Title:	Blindness
Date Created:	Oct 2018
Copyright:	© Elizabeth Leggett
Genre:	Horror
Mediums:	Digital
Views:	625
Posted:	11/2/2018

2018 is the first year I have actively participated in the artist project of "Month of Fear." It is an exercise to stretch your creativity with one word prompts with a spooky bent once a week for all of October. One of those prompts was "Blindness." For this piece, I wanted to show texture being interpreted while blind. A wasps nest is light and crackling. The outer shell is dry like dried flowers. I wanted the figure to be envisioning dried blossoms and not yet being aware of the threat of the wasps. Since her focus is on what she believes she "sees", the rest of her is muted out. (From a strictly artist perspective, I wanted to see if I could do the grays and whites of her clothing as much as creating the image matching the prompt!) “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard