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SIGHT UNSEEN

SCULPTOR MICHAEL NARANJO SENSES THE LIVING ESSENCE OF THE PIECES HE CREATES IN CLAY, WAX, AND STONE

BEFORE HE TOUCHED Michelangelo's monumental marble sculpture of David, Michael Naranjo had tried carving stone. He thought he had done a fair job of it, for someone without sight and with full use of only one hand. Then, in the early 1980s, he had the moving and almost overwhelming experience of climbing onto scaffolding-built specifically for him-surrounding the 16th-century masterpiece in Florence, Italy. He spent hours running his fingers over the extraordinarily smooth surface of the 18-foot-tall figure, feeling the bulging vein in the enormous neck, the muscled arms, even the tear ducts ...

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