Nose Putty
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Audio Description for Nose Putty, 2025, Video Still co-created by Participant Forty-eight Richie and Victoria Hamilton, Chromaluxe print on HD Metal, 25 x 45cm.
The artwork titled ‘Nose Putty’ 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.
In this image, a woman and man sit at a kitchen bench having breakfast. The woman, positioned slightly right side of centre, has long straight brown hair, a white top, and an orange cardigan. She holds a white coffee mug, appearing relaxed and cheerful. The man, on the right third of the image, has medium length wavy brown hair and is wearing a black t-shirt. He smiles and looks side on towards the woman. Both are facing each other engaged in conversation. Unusually the woman is wearing comical black glasses, bushy eyebrows, bushy moustache and pink nose known as Groucho Marx glasses and nose putty or beaglepuss.
On the kitchen bench in front of them, centre left, are three white plates – two with iced donuts (one purple, one white, both with sprinkles) and a croissant. A mobile phone sits just to the right of centre on the kitchen bench. The bench is a light grey and white marble effect. The image is brightly saturated, with a mostly a neutral off-white background indicating kitchen cupboards though the details are washed out. Behind the couple is a grey marble bench and backsplash with power points and kitchen knives adding context.
The overall tone is one of relaxed, happy interaction between the two people. Participant Forty Eight, Ritchie, lives in Durham, America. This image is a still from a one minute video created for the Visions of Charles Bonnet Syndrome research by Victoria Hamilton.
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Audio Description for Nose Putty diagrams, 2025, created by Victoria Hamilton, in Adobe Illustrator, 40 x 10cm.
The diagram is titled ‘Nose Putty: the vision of Participant Forty-eight | Richie’. 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 ‘Nose Putty’, appears centrally placed in large bold black text. To the right edge is ‘the vision of Participant Forty-eight | Richie, (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-eight, Richie, 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: an orange dotted circle, grey rectangle with curved corners, a light brown dotted circle, and a pink circle. These shapes are connected by a thin white line running behind them.
The orange dotted circle features a title arc of text reading: Action taken on having CBS vision. Across the middle is written: For me, when I look away or put my hand through it, it doesn’t matter. (He) tells wife. 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 American region of the world. Next is a light brown dotted circle containing text reading: Focus group 2: sight loss – initial incorrect diagnosis of early onset glaucoma. Eventually realised I have a rare and orphan form of optic atrophy and was losing eyesight. The final diagram is a pink circle depicting a field of view representing areas of vision loss. Participant Forty-eight’s diagram shows is central loss of vision and loss of vision on the left and right sides.
The overall information represents a participant from East America who has sight loss from a rare form of optic atrophy and communicates the experience of CBS with their wife.