Blindness / 失明 / Blindsein
Blindness
Oil on Canvas
36" x 48"
Completed in 2006
Inventory # 2776.101.2006.05.005
© Matthew Felix Sun
Note: Published by Synchronized Chaos, an interdisciplinary art, poetry, literary, science, nature, cultural issues, and travel writing webzine, October 2009
Part of Matthew Felix Sun's Apocalypse Series
This painting was inspired by the novel "Blindness" (Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning Essay on Blindness) by José Saramago.
"Arabesque" and Other Paintings Inspired by Literature
My painting Blindness, based on José Saramago's eponymous masterpiece, (originally in Portuguese: Ensaio sobre a cegueira, meaning Essay on Blindness), didn't depict any particular passage of the book; rather, I tried to capture a sense of displacement and bewilderment.