Grocery Kaleidoscope
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Audio Description for Grocery Kaleidoscope, 2025, Video Still co-created by Participant Thirty-five – Dianne, and Victoria Hamilton, Chromaluxe print on HD Metal, 25 x 45cm.
The artwork titled ‘Grocery 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 woman in a light brown coat who appears to interact with a vibrant, floating kaleidoscope pattern in a grocery store. Positioned in the foreground to the left, she fills nearly the entire frame. Standing side on in profile her arm is bent at ninety degrees towards the large multicoloured display that dominates the background. The kaleidoscope pattern consists of squares, rectangles and lines in various shades of purple, pink, blue, white, and green. Mirrored horizontally, diagonally, and vertically the pattern is translucent towards the edges. It occupies approximately 80 percent of the image area while the store’s background elements are blurred.
In the top left corner, some store signage and produce on shelving are visible against the back wall. Fluorescent lighting is subdued with the kaleidoscope being the primary source of illumination. A delicatessen counter stretches diagonally from mid-left to bottom-right corner. It has a glass front filled with assorted cheeses and condiments – though these items are too blurry to be individually discerned.
The overall atmosphere suggests an unreal quality due to the vivid patterned vision. Participant Thirty Five – Dianne, lives in New York, America. This image is a still from a one-minute-twenty-second video created for the Visions of Charles Bonnet Syndrome research by Victoria Hamilton.
Audio Description Diagram
Audio Description for Grocery Kaleidoscope, 2025, created by Victoria Hamilton, in Adobe Illustrator, 40 x 10cm.
The diagram is titled ‘Grocery Kaleidoscope: the vision of Participant Thirty-Five | Dianne’. 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 ‘Grocery Kaleidoscope’, appears centrally placed in large bold black text. To the right edge is ‘the vision of Participant Thirty-Five | Dianne’ (please note some of the participants in this research have chosen to disclose their identity). Beneath, a sentence reads: “video still co-created by Participant Thirty-Five, Dianne, 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 pink dotted circle, grey rectangle with curved corners, a blue-grey dotted circle, and a pink circle. These shapes are connected by a thin white line running behind them.
The pink dotted circle features a title arc of text reading: Action taken on having CBS vision. Across the middle is written: frozen, fear: kaleidoscopes in a grocery store – it deleted everything – petrified – I couldn’t move couldn’t do anything because I did not know what was going on : fire, fear. 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 America region of the world. Next is a smaller blue-grey dotted circle containing text reading: interview A: sight loss – “I have blindness, temporary blindness. And like you, it was a brain injury, it’s an accident”. The final diagram is a larger pink dotted circle depicting a field of view representing areas of vision loss. Participant Thirty-five’s diagram shows is left and right loss of vision, around the edges, and patchy loss of vision.
The overall information represents a participant from East America who has sight loss from a brain injury that is intermittent and expressed the fear from CBS is related to not knowing what is happening.