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Apropos of various discussions, I have been adding my voice as yet another aphantasic artist/writer out in the world. Like this:
Reading what Stephanie Pui-Mun Law wrote about her aphantasia is what let me finally put a word to how things work for me. Well, a word more expansive than saying "I pick up a handful of mixed beads and watch what rolls next to what, and ask them what they might want to be."
It was very comforting to read what she said, as I had spent many decades thinking I did art weird, after a couple of decades thinking I must not be good at art, all because I couldn't start it the way people told me I was supposed to start it. It's good to not feel broken. I should write her a thank-you letter probably.
Anyhow, greetings from this aphantasic artist to all aphantasic doers-of-art-and-literature. I wish you comfort and knowing that you are not broken.
Which suddenly causes me to wonder: am I the first aphantasic artist to win a Hugo? Surely not, but... maybe the first one who knows it by that name? Because I'm pretty sure there have been aphantasic artists all along, really.
Reading what Stephanie Pui-Mun Law wrote about her aphantasia is what let me finally put a word to how things work for me. Well, a word more expansive than saying "I pick up a handful of mixed beads and watch what rolls next to what, and ask them what they might want to be."
It was very comforting to read what she said, as I had spent many decades thinking I did art weird, after a couple of decades thinking I must not be good at art, all because I couldn't start it the way people told me I was supposed to start it. It's good to not feel broken. I should write her a thank-you letter probably.
Anyhow, greetings from this aphantasic artist to all aphantasic doers-of-art-and-literature. I wish you comfort and knowing that you are not broken.
Which suddenly causes me to wonder: am I the first aphantasic artist to win a Hugo? Surely not, but... maybe the first one who knows it by that name? Because I'm pretty sure there have been aphantasic artists all along, really.
