MESSAGE #209 - IT’S NOT WHAT YOU LOSE – IT’S WHAT YOU HAVE LEFT

In 1991, Grace Jacobian lost her eyesight.

This once successful fashion designer contacted the Braille Institute to teach her to read by touch.

While there, she discovered a heretofore unrealized talent -- painting!

At age 90, she is totally blind and paints from memory.

Her work has hung in a Los Angeles City Hall gallery. She is recognized as a “genuine folk artist of Southern California.”

“Remembering,” she says, “isn’t the same as seeing.”

But it is all she has left, and she maximized her memory.

From: 500 Illustrations
Authors: C. Curtis Jones & Paul H. Jones