Childs Checkers
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Audio Description for Childs Checkers, 2025, Video Still co-created by Participant Fifty, Susan, and Victoria Hamilton, Chromaluxe print on HD Metal, 25 x 45cm.
The artwork titled ‘Childs Checkers’ 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 presents a bedroom interior from a slightly elevated central perspective. A bed with a pink-beige doona, is ruffled as if recently slept in, positioned at the bottom centre. The headboard presses against large windows that span the back wall, revealing a nighttime city skyline. Interestingly, while most of the room and windows are shrouded in evening darkness, one pane appears illuminated as if it is daytime. To the left, a set of wooden drawers with a small lamp casts a soft ambient light across the wall. Scattered on the floor between the drawers and the bed are various items such as books, clothes, and a small side table. The walls are painted in warm red-orange tones, complemented by cream-coloured carpet on the left and a patterned rug on the right. On the right side of the room sits a desk with a chair, framed photo, cups, and a desk lamp, emitting the same ambient glow as its counterpart on the other side of the room. The right wall features a geometric black-and-white rectangular grid wallpaper.
From top centre to almost the bottom right, numerous children’s drawings float mid-air, in a curved grid pattern. These vivid images contrast sharply with the muted nighttime lighting of the bedroom. There are twelve vivid images and eleven smaller transparent ones that are smaller floating in between. The drawings depict clowns, houses animals, monsters, and butterflies in vibrant colours. Separate from this grid, on the left side of the image two thirds of the way up, a large bright children’s drawing of a lion is floating in the air. The lion is orange with a bright red mane.
Overall, this nighttime scene in a comfortable bedroom with soft ambient lighting takes on a slightly surreal quality due to the floating glowing children’s drawings. Participant Fifty, Susan, lives in America. This image is a still from a one-minute-fourteen-second video created for the Visions of Charles Bonnet Syndrome research by Victoria Hamilton.
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Audio Description for Childs Checkers diagrams, 2025, created by Victoria Hamilton, in Adobe Illustrator, 40 x 10cm.
The diagram is titled ‘Childs Checkers: the vision of Participant Fifty. 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 ‘Childs Checkers, appears centrally placed in large bold black text. To the right edge is ‘the vision of Participant Fifty. Beneath, a sentence reads: “video still co-created by Participant Fifty, 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 blue 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: questioning – talking to the vision – not real – don’t come closer – shut eyes. The grey rectangle with curved corners contains a world map with small coloured placemarks indicating participants origins. There is no indicator for this participant as they did not provide this information in the survey. Next is a larger blue dotted circle containing text reading: Focus group 2: sight loss: “I’ve got sight loss in my left eye. It’s nearly gone now in my left eye and I am having difficulty with my right one but they can’t get to the bottom of what has gone wrong and why”. The final diagram is a pink circle depicting a field of view representing areas of vision loss. Participant Fifty’s diagram shows loss of vision from both the left and right sides with the text – I have binocular double vision with retinal rivalry.
The overall information represents a participant who has sight loss with double vision with retinal rivalry and is questioning the experience of CBS.