Growing up as a Harry Potter fan, I still have vivid memories of reading the first book in the series as a child.
It was years before the movie adaptation was made, but even before then, my 10-year-old brain could easily picture what the boy wizard looked like just from the book’s verbal descriptions of his appearance – messy dark hair, round glasses and lightning bolt scar.
Therefore, as I was preparing to meet Singaporean artist Jevon Chandra, I found myself struggling to understand, even just in theory, the possibility of a person not possessing this same capability.
For much of his life, Mr Chandra had assumed that when other people said they could see images in their minds, they were merely using a figure of speech – much like how we say “I see what you mean” or “I see where you’re coming from” to convey that we understand what was being said and know that it does not refer to actual sight.
