Prosopagnosia

Prosopagnosia

Also called face blindness, is an impairment in the human brain's recognition of facial identity. Prosopagnosics often have difficulty recognizing family members, close friends, and even themselves in the mirror. They tend to use alternative routes to recognition, but these routes are not as effective as recognition via the face. Not surprisingly, prosopagnosia can create serious social problems. Several estimates suggest 1 in 50 people are prosopagnosic to some degree. It can be accompanied by recognition impairments affecting other categories such as scenes, cars, and facial expressions of emotion, but in some cases, face recognition deficits occur in isolation. A person with prosopagnosia wouldn't be able to identify a man or a woman by face let alone see anything in these experimental paintings I made.

To live in a world of uncertainty because you are never truly comfortable or safe, everyone is a stranger including yourself. What does my (mom/dad/sister/brother/wife or husband/son/daughter/I) look like now that's the despair of the highest quality? True isolation is the one created by the human mind itself.