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Sargy Mann in his studio IMAGE COPYRIGHTPETER MANN
In the last weeks of his life, the artist Sargy Mann began writing about his extraordinary career as a blind painter. The last 10 years of his life, after his eyesight had failed completely, were paradoxically his most successful - his final exhibition opened in London this week, two months after his death. Here he reflects on the nature of perception and the visual experiences that continue after the loss of sight.
In 1973, when I was only 35, I had cataract extractions in both eyes. They were, as I had hoped, the orange-brown kind that Monet had had in late life, and for a week or so after the operations I experienced colour - particularly cool blues, greens, violets and magentas - with revelatory intensity. The only comparable experience was the one occasion when I had taken LSD in 1966. Very soon my brain readjusted, but the memory stayed with me as a sort of talisman
