Jonathan Montag

I visited a college dormitory room where the students who lived there had paper and drawing charcoal on a table and had visitors draw a picture of themselves. They were then posted on a wall of the dorm room. Results ran from amazing likeness to drawings akin to Charlie Brown. My art would have been Charlie Brown by a 10 year old. I noticed that the drawing talent had a wide range and was not a function of study. It was more a talent I did not have, but, judging by the quality of the drawings, there were far more people capable of creating good images of themselves than those, like me, who could not. What I thought was the amazing talent of a few was not a unique, innate skill, but an ability most had and I lacked. I heard a Radiolab about aphantasia and it was the Eureka Moment.