Love Seat
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Audio Description for Love Seat, 2025, Video Still co-created by Participant Sixty-five, Ruth, and Victoria Hamilton, Chromaluxe print on HD Metal, 25 x 45cm.
The artwork titled ‘Love Seat’ 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.
At the centre of this hazy, vibrant landscape, two indistinct figures sit silhouetted on a bench. The couple and the bench occupies about one sixth of the image area. Positioned in a grassy mid-ground area, they face away from us, gazing towards the distant mountains. The figure on the right has long light-coloured hair, while the one on the left sports short darker hair. Both figures are ethereal, their forms blurred and out of focus. Extending from their feet to the right corner of the image is a carpet of small yellow flowers within the grass. A large tree in shadow stretches from the top left corner to the centre, framing the scene. The grassy mid-ground park area is a mix of greens and yellows and is indistinct extending half way up the image. Above this lies a vista of out-of-focus distant mountain views, capped by a grey blue sky.
Encompassing the couple and covering about eighty percent of the scene, is a vibrant, shifting, amorphous blob of colours: blue, green, pink, and teal. These floating ethereal shapes give an impression of a fantastical atmosphere. The colours blend together in an abstract, soft, dreamy composition.
The overall tone is an ethereal scene with bright floating shapes and blurry figures in silhouette. Participant Sixty Five, Ruth, lives in New York, America. This image is a still from a one-minute-twenty-nine-second video created for the Visions of Charles Bonnet Syndrome research by Victoria Hamilton.
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Audio Description for Love Seat diagrams, 2025, created by Victoria Hamilton, in Adobe Illustrator, 40 x 10cm.
The diagram is titled ‘Love Seat: the vision of Participant Sixty-Five | Ruth’. 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 ‘Love Seat’, appears centrally placed in large bold black text. To the right edge is ‘the vision of Participant Sixty-Five | Ruth’ (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 Sixty-Five, Ruth, 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 light blue dotted circle, and a green 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: going with it. 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 Canada region of the world. Next is a smaller light blue dotted circle containing two even smaller dark blue circles shaped like eyes with text below reading: Starting in both macular. The final diagram is a larger green circle depicting a field of view representing areas of vision loss. Participant Sixty-five’s diagram shows is central loss of vision and complete loss of vision.
The overall information represents a participant from Canada who is blind from macular degeneration and is ‘just going with’ the experience of CBS.