Such a great piece Helen. I’ve returned to grad school this fall and my favorite class so far is Perceptions, in which we explore a whole lot of theory about what it really means to see. The class began with writings about the experience of being blind and there was a case study of someone who had their sight restored after decades of blindness. What we learn is that he had to learn to see - he didn’t just open his eyes and know what he was seeing. I thought of this because it describes how he would have to go around an entire object, see it at all angles, take in the different parts, touch it before being able to really “see” it.