“to be an artist is to believe in life.”
talent…
fiorenza’s style, prose poetry, preserves poetic devices like imagery and emotional syntax while using a paragraph-style composition instead of verse lines. their particular brand of writing is well known for its focus on emotions and abstract, dream-like descriptions; most attribute this unique voice to their blindness.
story…
congenital cataracts. bilateral. persistent. irreparable. the mother of your father had been born with just one— your own mother should have prepared for the chance that you would be subjected to a fate not dissimilar to hers.
doctors ask you, “can you see this?” when you are still a babe. when you babble confused jargon, they repeat, “can you see this?”
the answer was always the same.