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Yannis made several abstract expressionistic sculptures which were meant to be touched as well as seen in order to fully experience the textures. Because Yannis was both seeing and non-seeing this form of art was a way to invite the blind into his artistic world. At the same time, the fact that he was blind in one eye may have been the source of a profound appreciation and passion for bold, forceful colors such as bright yellow and loud red juxtaposed against black and white. The seeing and non-seeing parts of himself met most vividly in the "Black, White, Red, Yellow" works.