Ant Farm Book, available now: Columns: Gerry Christie

in print

Gerry Christie, who admits to being about 70, knits a portrait of herself and a friend at her Apartment in Minneapolis. She's blind.

"I never did a face before. I don’t know what a face looks like. I just don’t go around feeling people’s faces. I know it has ears ’cause I felt mine. And I know about the eyes, even though mine don’t work. I know I got a nose. I couldn’t get the eyelashes right. And I never seen anybody smile. I just guessed what I think it looks like.

I’ve never seen me, so I don’t know what I look like. I know how I feel. I love people. I like to knit. I like to sing. I don’t are what my face looks like. I know people see it. There must be something there people like."