White Cane Painting

 While waiting outside a bathroom for a student, another student started "drawing" on the floor with the tip of his white cane and having me guess the picture. (A white cane is a mobility device used by people who are blind).

"It's a circle...oh it has two dots. Are you drawing a face?" A teacher passed by and suggested we make our game into permanent art by using paint when we got back to the classroom, which is exactly what we did. I helped him dip the tip of his cane into the paint (because neither of us wanted to clean up a bunch of spilled paint from the floor) and then he rolled the tip back and forth on the paper in a few colors. It ended up being abstract and tactile and once we cleaned off the cane, both of our Orientation and Mobility teachers loved it. Not every representation of the type of cane my blind students use has to be the image of the cane itself, it can be the arch and the rolled motion the cane makes as it sweeps back and forth on the floors of our school.