With his eyesight worsening, painter Julyan Davis broadens his creative focus to literature - a podcast by Blue Ridge Public Radio - BPR Arts & Performance

Julyan Davis has evolved into a novelist in part through stubbornness but, as he sees it, also by necessity. Davis is far from blind, but degenerating eyesight has prompted visits over the past decade to ophthalmologists. "An ophthalmologist some years ago, I guess he skipped the semester on diplomacy, but he said 'What do you do for a living?' I said I'm an artist, and he said 'Oh that's a shame.'" Davis recalled. "I said 'What do you mean?' and he said 'Just down the road, it might be a

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