Why talk about blindness and epilepsy?
With my first shows I never told anyone that I was blind. I rarely did art openings, preferring instead to do a closing party. I was not ashamed of being blind, but I did not want that detail of my life to interfere with the art. I wanted people to deal solely with the art, and not be distracted by the lack of eyesight. People would come up to me and ask where the artist was, that they were interested in purchasing a piece. After I told them that I was the artist and then convinced them that I was they would always go back through and take a second look at all of the paintings. I am not sure what they were looking for on this second go round; perhaps they were trying to see the blindness. As stories began to be written in the media it did little good to put off an opening because most people at the show already knew about my eyesight. It became clear to me then that my best hope for people to forget about me and focus on the art was for me to be as open and honest as I could; to answer
