These are a sample of the thoughts, anxieties and targeted phrases my mother faces since losing her vision in 1983. Despite working primarily in photography and film, I wanted to connect with her through her blindness and try to make sense of it visually. These recordings include her describing everything she can and cannot see. I also asked her to speak about the struggle she has navigating a visually dominant world, both physically and mentally.
In an attempt to understand her relationship to the world, these scenes involve settings she regularly encounters outdoors while using various techniques to abstract what is being recorded.

As an extension of this, the use of paints creates an additional barrier for the viewer and works to represent the concept of trying to visualize an experience that is unseen. The layering of voices creates a lack of clarity to understand everything that is happening, similar to the constant hurdles she is forced to go through everyday.



© Brileigh Hardcastle, 2022