Once while visiting the Chicago zoo I saw a very old man who was blind for he had a white cane and he was leaning close to the plate glass at the lion’s display. He was making faces at the lions, grand faces, grotesque faces like someone who could hide his appearance behind a Venetian mask. The lions for their part saw the man’s evident incomprehensibility as just another form of light. Don’t underestimate the power of a wall. That was one of my earliest lessons in art.
S.K.
Planet of the Blind 