Floral Nightmare
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Audio Description for Floral Nightmare, 2025, Video Still co-created by Participant Twenty-two and Victoria Hamilton, Chromaluxe print on HD Metal, 25 x 45cm.
The artwork titled ‘Floral Nightmare’ 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 features a fantastical interior of a room symmetrically viewed, drawing the observer into a perspective rich space with three walls, a ceiling, and a floor.
Covering the walls floor and ceiling is a dense jungle of diverse flowers and vines predominantly awash with pinks and red with scattered splashes of yellow and white. In the top section of the artwork the ceiling radiates with a central cluster of illuminated white peonies, interspersed with pink petals and bordered by dark foreboding vines. The right wall meets the ceiling in one of the few clear spaces devoid of plant life. This wall is a distorted blur of orange, pink, white, and green foliage creating an unrecognisable yet living entity.
The left wall has a similar gap where the wall meets the ceiling that enhances the rooms spatiality. Midway along this wall is a door emitting a glowing light that spills across the floor and wall. At the artwork’s bottom on the floor of the interior lies a carpet of blooms. A third of the way across an old pot plant spills miniature roses although they are too distorted to identify clearly. Central back wall is a blurry bush of lavender. The back wall of the interior hides a distorted door behind vines and roses. While the subject is an abundance of floral elements the overall tone of the picture is dark and distorted, punctuated by rays of light illuminating the way.
Participant Twenty Two lives in New York, America. This image is a still from a 48 second video created for the Visions of Charles Bonnet Syndrome research by Victoria Hamilton.
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Audio Description for Floral Nightmare diagrams, 2025, created by Victoria Hamilton, in Adobe Illustrator, 40 x 10cm.
The diagram is titled ‘Floral Nightmare: the vision of Participant Twenty-two. 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. Further across the top, the title ‘Floral Nightmare’, appears centrally placed in large bold black text. To the right edge is ‘the vision of Participant Twenty-two’. Beneath, a sentence reads: “video still co-created by Participant Twenty-two, and Victoria Hamilton.” Below this top line of text, stretching from the QR code to the image’s right edge, is a line of four coloured shapes: a orange-pink dotted circle, grey rectangle with curved corners, a purple dotted circle, and a pink dotted circle. These shapes are connected by a thin white line running behind them.
The orange-pink circle features a title arc of text reading: Action taken on having CBS vision. Across the middle is written: Yells – go away. I say to the visions, ‘Go away, go home, get out! Has learned to sleep with the lights on to keep the hallucinations at bay.’ 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 smaller purple dotted circle containing text reading: Focus group 3: sight loss –“ I was diagnosed 17 years ago with Macular Degeneration, Retinitis Pigmentosa and Rod Cone Dystrophy. I only see shadows now. The final diagram is a larger pink dotted circle depicting a field of view representing areas of vision loss. Participant Twenty-two’s diagram shows is central loss of vision and loss of vision around the edges.
The overall information represents a participant from East coast of America who has extensive sight loss and has learned to live with the CBS visions by reacting and altering the living environment.