Perceptual Systems, an Inexhaustible Reservoir of Information and the Importance of Art

There is my developing experience as a painter going blind which is unusual and interesting and as you know I am interested in that. But I am equally interested, possibly more interested in a conception of what figurative art can be as a way of mining new experience and in some sense or other recording it so it's communicable. Now essentially all my drafts [of this paper] are trying to put those two together and it seems at first like a paradox, but it's a paradox that I think I can perfectly resolve⋯ and it's what I want to do⋯ the third element which is very hard to separate from the other two, is the perceptual learning applied to the perceptual systems, made possible through consciousness⋯ That does require an analysis to do with things to do with the anatomy of the eye and the brain, which most people haven't got a clue about but which is absolutely crucial.