 Brainport V100, Wicab Incorporated. A young woman draws using both hands. One holds the ballpoint pen, and the other traces the lines of ink. My name is Emily Garcia. I'm an artist, and I'm getting my MFA in sculpture. I've always been an artist. After graduating from high school, I went to Cooper Union in New York City, and when I was a senior, I was hit by a truck while riding my bike. And I lost my vision, and it took me two years to finish my senior year and graduate. And I transitioned from being a drawer and a printmaker to being a sculptor. Examples of her sculptures include a stack of watermelons, cut lemons in a broken dish, a twisted cactus, and a gray palm tree on a stool. A year after the accident, Emily was introduced to Brainport, a device that translates light into electric pulses through an electrode that sits on her tongue. Emily draws with her sheet of paper on a thin black pad. So this is a sensory substitution device. There is a camera attached to the nose of these sunglasses, and attached to the sunglasses is this tongue piece that sits in your mouth, and there's many hundreds of little electrodes that will shock your tongue very gently, and that will create the tactile sensation on your tongue that will then kind of translate in your mind's eye as vision. With the ballpoint pen in the pad, I'm able to feel the texture of what I'm drawing so I can feel the line, and I can also feel it on my tongue with the electric shock of the Brainport on my tongue so I can feel both at the same time, and that helps me visualize what I'm drawing better. Wearing the Brainport device, she stands by the window in the corner of the room, drawing. Special thanks to Emily Gossio. Video produced by Chris J. Gauthier. In conjunction with the exhibition Access Plusability, on view December 15th, 2017 through September 3rd, 2018.