Thursday, December 17, 2009

In your opinion? How would you describe the beauty of color to a blind person?

I want to know how you would describe the beauty of colors or just anything in general,to a blind person? What types of methods would you use?In your opinion? How would you describe the beauty of color to a blind person?
Well, I have done this a few ways and I think it worked alright. I described the differences in color like the differences in musical tones (or sounds), or in texture of surfaces.





I liked the musical comparison, because I used things like something having color as something giving off a sound, it might be pretty, it might be brash, it might be awful, it might be pleasant. Then I compared the use of colors, and the blending of colors, to be the use of sounds, or the blending of noises. Normally just blending the noises is awful, but put in patterns, it can be beautiful, like a song or music for instance.





Then I used the texture comparison because certain things almost always have certain textures associated with them. Just like they can tell what an egg feels like, so too can they know that a typical chicken egg is white. Of course, that is not always the case, not all eggs are white, etc, but they ';got the picture.';





At first, I was not truly sure if any of this was making sense until I tried it on a person who had gone blind. They saw at a time before they can really remember, and they liked the analogy so much that they cried and thanked me for helping them. They said that they would use these concepts to communicate color to those who have always been blind.





Maybe it was not really what I said so much as how they interpreted it. I think it matters a lot on how you present these things to someone. I believe that this is a really hard thing to do, and that you must really care or nothing that you do or try is going to work.In your opinion? How would you describe the beauty of color to a blind person?
Get creative, what do certain colors make you feel, Is red hot, is pink warm then? use all the other senses. Have the person touch textures like bark on a tree describe the color. Have them smell a flower and tell them the color. there are flowers out there that the smell compliments the color. Like there are these purple flowers that smell like grape bubble gum. Have them lie quietly and listen to the water rushing up on shore and describe the blue green ocean, white foam. This could start a great friendship. GOOD LUCK
Because they can't see, blind people often have a heightened sense of smell, taste, and hearing. I would use sounds, tastes, and smells to try to describe a color to them. For example, red reminds me of a spicy salsa (taste). In my opinion, red is also a loud color, so I might say that red is as loud as a hard rock song and pink is related to red but is more like a soft love song.
Describe it as Tastes. a taste that has shape, and the ';color'; is what filled into that shape.
Being color blind, I think the best way to describe to someone who is blind to everything is to describe it to emotion. Let them know when they feel euphoric that is how bright or vibrant colors are. Or if they feel sad then colors are more bland and gray. It's a hard question. I would think though, you'd have to compare it to some kind of emotion.
red something hot. blue something cold; white use pillow stuffing describe as cloud like angel wings soft %26amp; light. yellow give them the warmth of the morning sun on their face. brown use possible mud gooshing between their toes. pink a soft brush of your fingers on their cheek. orange and purple are bright and loud colors try something that resembles that to you and it will help them. black is a hard one something hard and heavy perhaps something made from cast iron. i hope this helps use their other senses to help water is a good one for blue also give grape koolaide for purple to or cherry for red us everything around you including nature let him feel a big bright green leaf or lay in the grass and smell it when its freashly cut or go outside right after a good thunderstorm take him to a farm and feel and hear the animal and even smell them. try walking through the woods on a nice fall day the leaves under your feet as you walk or twig snapping birds calling there endliss posibilities or even a street market or busy city just make sure they don't get scared or hurt along the way on this adventure look at it like an adventure for both
YOUR MOM...(Isn't that original).
The movie the Mask (with Sam Elliot, Eric Schultz and Cher) has a great scene about a blind girl learning about colors, I haven't seen it in a while so I can't recall, but its worth seeing and it might give you some ideas.

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