My project proposal "The art of seeing, an exploration of light", seems to be firming up a bit more in my mind now. I have more of an idea of which direction I might be taking it, or is it taking me?
We see so many images on a daily basis, we ignore most of them. So we have this repository of images in our head, a dustbin full of memories we are not really aware of.
My project is about showing what is seen but unseen. It is about how some things can be visible but invisible at the same time. A simple example of this would be to ask yourself the last time you noticed a postman going about his business when you were not actually waiting for a letter, or you were just bimbling along the street. If he was there you saw him, but you didnt realise you had. He is both visible and invisible.
That is the experience of many disabled people, both blind and sighted. Visible but overlooked. My project, I hope will bring about a greater awareness of all those things we see but do not notice. I have asked some people who live locally and are registered blind to take some photographs so that I can find out if there is any subject which binds their creativity together, for instance family, food, pets, gardens etc. I might be surprised and be faced with wonderful abstraction, I just don't know.
In any case that mini project will hopefully inform my ongoing work and give it some direction.
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