The human body is wise. The body immediately potentiates the other senses when one sense is missing.
Some years ago a journalist named Samanta Villar made an experiment: she voluntarily blinded herself for 21 days. A few hours into the experiment she could tell if a door was opened or closed without looking at itâŠ. (See here)
This ability of the body helps many deaf people to have a special affinity towards plastic arts or visual arts. With the visual field amplified, attention also rises, which is why there is a vast group of deaf people that dedicate themselves some way or another to plastic arts.
Photographers, graphic designers, illustrators, etc⊠are professions with a high amount of visual content, which is why many deaf people find in them a great area to exploit. One of these artists is the famous painter Francisco De Goya (1746-1828) who in 1792 became deaf.  In the case of this genius painter, he suffered from alienation and anguish that has nothing to do with how deafness is lived nowadays.  Another example of a deaf visual artist is Edgar Murillo, also known as Artedgar. (www.facebook.com/artedgar)
