Judith Scott, The Museum of Everything

'At times she presses against the surface in various areas as if to ascertain whether the threads are taut, exploring almost as a blind person would, checking the firmness and finish of the form.'

Macgregor, J.H. "Watching Judith at Work" World Transformers: The Art of Outsiders

Untitled (Multi-colored Nest) Judith Scott

California yarn and twine with unknown armature

Considered an outsider, Judith Scott makes us question whether art has become too theory based. After visiting the Museum of Everything exhibition for self-taught artists, I started to think that deafness, blindness or any disability can be a positive. If an artist can have a sometimes-fixed image repertoire of the work they are creating, what would happen if you take a sense such as sight away? I discovered one of the few maxims on which Gombrich and Nelson Goodman agree: 'the innocent eye is blind. The capacity for a purely physical vision that is supposed to be forever inaccessible to the blind turns out to be itself a kind of blindness.'

Mitchell, W.J.T. “Blind Painting” Harrison and Wood, Art in Theory 1900-2000