A Different Way of Seeing. Helping You Make Sense of the Overwhelm
Having been notified that we had been successful in our funding application for the Inclusive Heritage ‘Kanala’ (please) project, our first step was to visit the District Six Museum to gain a sense of their existing exhibits and what the visitor experience might be like for a blind or partially blind person. Our plan was …
Following the success of the blind photography project, professional photographer Karren Visser and I decided to collaborate on a second project. We put in a funding application to the UK-based disability arts group Unlimited which, in partnership with British Council, invited proposals for projects promoting disabled arts. The project that Karren and I decided to …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji. I took Mom on another adventure recently. This time we went on a street art tour of the place called Salt River. I’ve taken Mom there before, when she wanted to visit the Cape Town Society for the Blind, but we weren’t going there this time. Instead we went …
I am always excited to hear about travel experiences that have been designed to be accessible to people with disabilities. Which is why I was so thrilled to hear about the Limitless Cape Town campaign launched in my home city. Cape Town is generally considered to be one of the world’s most beautiful travel locations, …
Those who know me would agree that I’m a fairly outgoing person. I enjoy being with people and spending time in a group environment. More than that, I love listening to loud music and can think of few things more fun than being surrounded by the thud of loud rock music on a dance floor. …
Hello everyone – it’s me, Fiji I don’t know if I’ve told you, but my mom loves to read books. You need to understand that books don’t make much sense to me. If they are made of paper they smell okay, but otherwise they’re pretty useless. My older sister Emily once tried to eat one …
Last week I described discovering that the way I visualise the world is different from most other people. Learning about aphantasia – the inability to visualise things in the mind’s eye – was a complete surprise to me. Because it so resembled my own experience. My initial response was utter shock. It shattered the way …
I was half-listening to a podcast when my attention was caught by what I was listening to. A visual artist was telling the story of how she realized she didn’t mentally see things the same way as other people. She described her shock when she learned that people were able to picture objects when calling …
As an author I love hearing what people think about my writing. I thought it might be fun to explore some of the different ways I get the feedback that means so much to me. The first thing I want to talk about is reviews. As I said in the title, reviews truly are the …
Hello everyone, it’s me – Fiji. If you read my last article, you’ll know that my mom came back from Mauritius, wherever that is, a few weeks ago. I think it may be taking time for her to recover from being away from me, because I see she hasn’t written any blog posts for a …