Inner Visions

To Grace Jacobian, artistic vision is a matter of metaphor and memory.

She lost her eyesight seven years ago and cannot see her finished works, trusting that their shapes and colors and textures will somehow convey images stored in her mind long ago.

At 91, she has plenty to choose from.

It was her blindness--from a massive hemorrhage--that led her to art. She began to study Braille at the Braille Institute in Hollywood, where she enrolled in an art history class, then a class in painting, then other mediums. Her work has been exhibited in the Bridge Gallery at Los Angeles City Hall, the American Printing House for the Blind in Kentucky and other places.