[Nfb-krafters-korner] OT dreams

Wed Feb 20 05:10:11 UTC 2013

If I remember right, you are spot on. I saw the documentary about him on the 
Discovery Science Channel a few months ago.
Kendra
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> My guess would be that the left side of his brain was damaged, thus 
> releasing the creative right side of the brain to be dominant. We cannot 
> draw unless we tap into the right brain - a left brained drawing would be 
> very structured and calculated.
> Lynda
>
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> From: "Kendra Schaber" <Baltimore777 at comcast.net>
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>> I've heard of a man who was perfically normal and no artist. He got in 
>> some kind of accedent where his brain got damaged. Since then, he became 
>> obsesive with drawing to the point that as long as his hands are free, he 
>> is drawing. I don't know where his sudden tallent for drawing came from. 
>> I do know that once it was unlocked, he has never put a stop of any kind 
>> since.
>> Kendra
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>> From: "River Woman" <riverwoman at zoominternet.net>
>> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" 
>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 10:22 AM
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>>
>>> That is ok, you will make things when the time is right for you. Don't 
>>> worry about that - you will. I always say the Art profession is the only 
>>> one I ever knew that nobody ever retires from - not even sickness or 
>>> disabilities deter the artist from making work. DeKooning was painting 
>>> during his years with Altzheimers;  Frieda Kahlo painted while flat on 
>>> her back in bed, and with debilitation pain and paralysis, and on and 
>>> on...we never quit.
>>>
>>> Lynda
>>>
>>>
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>>> From: "Deidre Muccio" <deimucc at verizon.net>
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>>>
>>>> Linda
>>>> I whole heartedly agree with you. I was questioning my own designation. 
>>>> I
>>>> guess that I do consider myself an artist at heart, I am, it's just I 
>>>> have
>>>> not produced much!
>>>>
>>>> Deidre
>>>>
>>>> Linda wrote:
>>>>
>>>> There is no such thing as a "former artist." I have in no way lost any 
>>>> of my
>>>> artistic creativity - it is just as urgent as it has always been my 
>>>> entire
>>>> life. Art is not an occupation that anyone ever retires from, or can 
>>>> quit
>>>> due to physical challenges.
>>>> We just continue on, changing as we go, and it is all part of the path 
>>>> we
>>>> have always been on since before birth. I am absolutely sure that art 
>>>> is
>>>> inherent, and nothing that can be learned - we can learn techniques, 
>>>> but the
>>>> ART spirit is there first, and we never lose it.
>>>>
>>>> Lynda
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Deidre Muccio" <deimucc at verizon.net>
>>>> To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" 
>>>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 10:53 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] OT dreams
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Linda
>>>>> The process you are describing is called "latent learning" I think. As 
>>>>> a
>>>>> former artist of sorts, fiction writing, visual, whatever, the more
>>>>> something is on your mind, much is percolating beneath the surface. 
>>>>> It's
>>>>> not
>>>>> unusual to solve problems the way you describe. That doesn't make it 
>>>>> any
>>>>> less interesting or fun however!
>>>>>
>>>>> Deidre
>>>>>
>>>>> OMG, Joyce, you are a BIG DREAMER - who are you kidding?  I mean, 
>>>>> let's
>>>>> just
>>>>> expand the idea of what a dream is - you are a wide awake, walking,
>>>>> living
>>>>> dreamer.
>>>>>
>>>>> I dream constantly - all I have to do is close my eyes, and in moments 
>>>>> I
>>>>> am
>>>>> off to places and situations. My dreams are always full of 
>>>>> DRAMA...never
>>>>> the
>>>>> kind of dreams that you want to close your eyes and go back to sleep 
>>>>> and
>>>>> try
>>>>> to resurrect.
>>>>>
>>>>> But, have any of you every been wrestling with a craft or art problem 
>>>>> you
>>>>> could not solve? And, then, in a dream, you see yourself doing it and 
>>>>> you
>>>>> wake up knowing exactly how to do something you never did before? I 
>>>>> sure
>>>>> have.  I have figured out knitting problems in m sleep, and I even 
>>>>> learned
>>>>> math concepts that I had a hard time with, in my dream. (I learned how 
>>>>> to
>>>>> do
>>>>> "slope" in algebra that way, when my conscious mind could not "get 
>>>>> it."
>>>>> I dream for ideas - sometimes I wake up and write down things I am 
>>>>> seeing
>>>>> in
>>>>> my dreams - poems come that way to me at times.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think we have such a creative mind, all of us, that dreams are a
>>>>> continuation of our creative self.
>>>>>
>>>>> Lynda
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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