Drawing with Eyes Closed: A Reading of «Memoirs of the Blind»

By eMe Alonso

Can drawing be born from blindness? Some books are read with reason, others with the heart… and a few, like *Memoirs of the Blind: The Self-Portrait and Other Ruins* by Jacques Derrida, with the gaze—the kind that dares to get lost in order to find something more. Derrida doesn’t write about drawing, but from within…