Cactus Blue
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Audio description Image
Audio Description for Cactus Blue, 2025, Video Still co-created by Participant Twenty-three and Victoria Hamilton, Chromaluxe print on HD Metal, 25 x 45cm.
The artwork titled ‘Cactus Blue’ is an unframed print created between 2024 – 2025. It measures 45 cm width and 25 cm high and is a Chromaluxe print on HD Metal– a method chosen to echo the clarity, depth, and vividness of the experience of a Charles Bonnet Vision. The artwork depicts a realistic vibrant garden with a stone pathway leading through vegetation. The composition leads the eye along the pathway in the foreground enhanced by a soft an diffused light. At the centre an array of spikey plants and trees fills the frame. The unusual bright blue flowers stand out in this otherwise natural setting. The garden scene invites exploration without any single element dominating and the ambiguous lighting suggests no particular time of day or night, just a sense of tranquillity.
In the foreground, large green sisal plants with sword shaped leaves resemble pom poms. Towards the middle and left of the image these sisal plants are up to 2 meters tall. In the background, Texas ebony trees form a dense shaded canopy with small dark, waxy, green leaves.
In the top section of the artwork just to the right of centre there is a bright spot of light shining through the canopy of the trees suggesting a sunlight breaking through. Fluorescent blue flowers serve as focal points: a partly transparent bud in the centre, the largest dark blue bloom on the bottom left corner near the path, and more flowers mid-right. These unusually large and brightly coloured flowers contrast with their surroundings. Light blue fluorescent dots suggest recently vanished flowers in the centre and front.
Overall, ‘Cactus Blue’ captures a realistic cactus garden while highlighting the striking anomaly of bright blue flowers. The edges are blurred with added soft light. Participant Twenty-three lives in Chicago, America. This image is a still from a 30 second video created for the Visions of Charles Bonnet Syndrome research by Victoria Hamilton.
Audio description Diagram
Audio Description for Cactus Blue diagrams, 2025, created by Victoria Hamilton, in Adobe Illustrator, 40 x 10cm.
The diagram is titled ‘Cactus Blue: the vision of Participant Twenty-three. It is a diagram created between 2023 – 2025. It measures 40 cm width and 10 cm high and is a multicoloured print on self-adhesive material, chosen for its clarity in gallery settings and ease of installation.
On the left end of the image, a black-and-white QR code enclosed in a square with chamfered corners spans the full height. To the right at the top, a sentence reads: “scan for audio description of 2025 video still co-created by Participant Twenty-three, and Victoria Hamilton.” Further across the top, the title ‘Cactus Blue, appears centrally placed in large bold black text. While to the right edge is ‘the vision of Participant Twenty-three’. Beneath this top line of text, stretching from the QR code to the image’s right edge, is a line of four coloured shapes: a green circle, grey rectangle with curved corners, a blue circle, and a pink circle. These shapes are connected by a thin black line running behind them.
The green circle features a title arc of text reading: Action taken on having CBS vision. Across the middle is written: ‘Initially terrified and unaware of Charles Bonnet syndrome.’ The grey rectangle with curved corners contains a world map with small coloured placemarks indicating participants origins. A light blue fuzzy circle is located over the East coast of America region of the world. Next is a blue circle containing text reading: Focus group 3: sight loss –“ I lost my vision almost five years ago due to eye stroke”. The final diagram is a larger pink circle depicting a field of view representing areas of vision loss. Participant Twenty-three’s diagram shows a blacked out shape with the text – mostly gone but can see shapes and movement.
The overall information represents a participant from East coast of America who has extensive sight loss and whose initial fear was eventually relieved when finding out about the syndrome .