In a world where creativity knows no bounds, expressing thoughts and emotions through art becomes not only a way to connect with others, but also opens up avenues that allow interesting ways to reach out to newer audiences. In order to connect with blind people, artist Andrew Myers, who used to make bronze sculptures, started making “screw paintings” when he saw a blind person run his hands over his sculpture once to understand what is was. That experience made him think of coming up with a new medium to connect with blind people through his art, and he started creating portraits with screws. He starts the process by drawing the portrait on plywood, drilling some holes throughout the portrait that he uses as a roadmap, and finally inserting thousands of screws at varying lengths to give the portrait natural contours of the human face or other objects – whatever he is depicting in that particular screw painting. Once all the screws are in, he paints each individual screw head in various colors to make the portrait look like the original portrait or objects. The finished product is a painting that can be viewed by sighted people from a distance as [...]