Lava Like
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Audio Description for Tiger Kaleidoscope, 2025, Video Still co-created by Participant Thirty-three and Victoria Hamilton, Chromaluxe print on HD Metal, 25 x 45cm.
The artwork titled ‘Tiger Kaleidoscope’ 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 symmetrical, abstract pattern with repeating, mirrored shapes reminiscent of a kaleidoscope. The shapes, in hues of reddish brown, orange, purple, and white, are set against a dark background speckled with light. On closer inspection, it is revealed the pattern is created from two different images of tigers.
The design creates a mirrored effect, showcasing precise and elaborate symmetry. Centrally, a snarling tiger is mirrored both horizontally and vertically, resulting in four tigers ready to pounce reflected with paws connected. These four are then mirrored from the top to the bottom center of the image. In the dead centre the four are overlapping to the extent they create two amorphous blobs. At the top and bottom edges, cut off glimpses of the tiger pattern reveal ears and heads. Altogether there are sixteen tigers in the central column. Along the left and right edges are additional snarling tigers showing only the heads and paws as if ready to leap into the frame: totalling twelve more tigers. Between all these are smaller images of sitting tigers with their paws on the ground. These too are reflected horizontally and vertically creating eight mirrored pairs suspended in space.
Rich and vibrant colours contrasted with a dark, almost black background speckled with light spots suggesting outer space – a kaleidoscope of 44 tigers floating in nothingness. The design elements evoke dynamic movement within a highly stylised abstract pattern. Participant Thirty Three lives in England. This image is a still from a 1 minute 11 seconds video created for the Visions of Charles Bonnet Syndrome research by Victoria Hamilton.
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Audio Description for Lava Like diagrams, 2025, created by Victoria Hamilton, in Adobe Illustrator, 40 x 10cm.
The diagram is titled ‘Lava Like: the vision of Participant Thirty-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. Further across the top, the title ‘Lava Like’, appears centrally placed in large bold black text. While to the right edge is ‘the vision of Participant Thirty-three’. Beneath, a sentence reads: “video still co-created by Participant Thirty-three, 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 purple dotted circle, grey rectangle with curved corners, a blue dotted circle, and a pink circle. These shapes are connected by a thin white line running behind them.
The purple dotted circle features a title arc of text reading: Action taken on having CBS vision. Across the middle is written: ‘Meditation helps them focus and calm their mind, and holistic therapies. They noticed a connection between their levels of relaxation and the pleasantness of their hallucinations – is involved in a support group called Esmes’ friends.’ 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 United Kingdom region of the world. Next is a blue dotted circle containing text reading: Interview B: sight loss – visually impaired since the age of 2, corneal problems, cataracts, and losing their right eye in an accident at work. Also lost their retina in their left eye after headbutting a corner of a TV.” The final diagram is a larger pink dotted circle depicting a field of view representing areas of vision loss. Participant Thirty-three’s diagram shows a blacked out shape with the text – complete loss of vision.
The overall information represents a participant from the United Kingdom who has complete loss of vision and who utilises meditation and holistic approaches to CBS.