Face Blind Portraits

Gitai suggested I do more portraits based on how I remember people, with my face blindness.

This is what I remember from people I saw on the bus and at stores.

Another thing that's "wrong" with me: Face Blindness

Hannibal, as seen by someone with face blindness (I think)

So, if you’ve watched the most recent season of Arrested Development, you know there’s a character who has face blindness (I won’t say anything that’s spoilerish about that).  It was the first time I’d seen face blindness come up on TV.  And… I was kind of annoyed by it.  There are different levels of face blindness, and for some people it gets really extreme, but folks with face blindness (like me) learn to recognize people with other cues.  Like their hair color and style, their voice, the clothes they wear.  If I concentrate real hard, I can take note of whether people are wearing glasses or not, if they have facial hair, and sometimes things like eye color and moles.  We use these little reminders to help us recognize people.  As far as I know, there is no such thing as a person with face blindness so extreme, that they can never recognize the person they’re talking to ever.

And then I realized I am going to talk about Hannibal spoilers (sort of, it's not super important to the plot of the episode itself).