Metaphoric pictures devised by an early-blind adult on her own initiative

EW, a totally blind adult, was encouraged to draw. Three years later, she took a sketchpad on a vacation trip to Mexico and made a series of drawings. In these pictures, objects, such as a glass or a person swimming, are drawn in a realistic manner in which lines stand for surface edges, and the shapes copy parts of the true forms of the objects. Of major interest, EW made drawings in which the lines and forms stood for the effect of the alcoholic liquid in the glass, the taste of a hot pepper, the sound of a trumpet, and the feeling of water running through the fingers of the swimmer. It is suggested that EW has invented apt metaphoric devices on her own initiative.