Aztec Lounge
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Audio Description for Aztec Lounge, 2025, Video Still co-created by Participant Forty-one, Paul, and Victoria Hamilton, Chromaluxe print on HD Metal, 25 x 45cm.
The artwork titled ‘Aztec Lounge’ 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 image depicts a large, light green figure, seemingly a Aztec-Mayan warrior, standing in a modern living room. Positioned just right of centre the figure occupies nearly the entire height of the image. There is a noticeable contrast between the figure’s materials and the surrounding environment, suggesting he is superimposed. The Aztec character is tall and imposing adorned with intricately detailed armour, plates, tattoos and a large spiked headdress. Despite his human appearance, his eyes are void and his expression neutral. His posture is upright and commanding.
The setting is a modern, minimalist living room, well-lit from above by a large double ringed light feature. The rooms sense of perspective is indicated by a fireplace on the right and a lounge on the left. An off white wall runs parallel to the picture frame with a central doorway indicating the space beyond. The fireplace on the right stretches the full length of the image; its hearth is unlit and concealed behind glass. Timber slats line its top half, with a flat screen television set mounted above. In the left corner sits an inviting L-shaped lounge with three scatter cushions. Behind the Aztec man is a matching chair. A dark timber staircase with glass railing is visible in the background on the left side accompanied by a small pot plant between its base and the doorway.
Overall, the wall and flooring create a bright and neutral background for the figure. The furniture blends into the colour scheme acting as a neutral backdrop. The lighting is bright and uniform casting no significant shadows on the figure, creating an atmosphere that is neither overly dramatic nor serene. Participant Forty One lives in San Francisco, America. This image is a still from a one-minute-seven-second video created for the Visions of Charles Bonnet Syndrome research by Victoria Hamilton.
Audio Description Diagram
Audio Description for Aztec Lounge diagrams, 2025, created by Victoria Hamilton, in Adobe Illustrator, 40 x 10cm.
The diagram is titled ‘Aztec Lounge’: the vision of Participant Forty-one | Paul’. 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 ‘Aztec Lounge’, appears centrally placed in large bold black text. To the right edge is ‘the vision of Participant Forty-one | Paul’ (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 Forty-one, Paul, 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 brown dotted circle, grey rectangle with curved corners, a grey dotted circle, and a pink circle. These shapes are connected by a thin white line running behind them.
The brown dotted circle features a title arc of text reading: Action taken on having CBS vision. Across the middle is written: Concerns about effect on life. Thoughts of vision loss. 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 West America region of the world. Next is a grey dotted circle containing text reading: Focus group 1: sight loss – from survey “retinal ganglion cell damage / atrophy.” The final diagram is a pink dotted circle depicting a field of view representing areas of vision loss. Participant Forty-one’s diagram shows central loss of vision and also peripheral loss of vision.
The overall information represents a participant from West America who has central and peripheral sight loss where the CBS experience brought up the relevance to effect about effect on life.