"I can't visualize anything. My 'mind's eye' is blind. If I want to picture an apple, I can't. Nor can I evoke the view outside my front door at home in London - I have to open the door and look at it." So notes Harriet Challis, describing in The Times of London what it's life to live with aphantasia, or inability to conjure mental images. After learning about aphantasia, Challis realized that she needed to take more photographs. "It's not that I spend my days hunting for a photograph, but being in the moment, entirely present, I have an alert eye for opportunity. Visual drama is all around," she writes.

  With the buzz already audible regarding the October opening of Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous at The Met, a major exhibition on two mid-century titans that also promises to bring new perspective on the ways in which outstanding woman artists have been disappeared by the art world at large, this is a good time to focus on a painter who will likely become better known following her untimely death than she was in life. Above: The artist in 2019 in he...