Data Analyis_Critical Reflection_Coding Memo_006 29 April 2020. Sally Interview 20 January 2020. Phase 2. Generating initial codes

Process and flow of coding ideas:

Continued to review transcripts and drag and drop verbatim extracts onto slides. Using a mix of colour codings, shuffling slides around, dual colours on some text extracts where there may be more than one code applicable. Considering ideas of transparency and discretion.  Seeking solutions in materials and methods to continue creating artwork despite sight-loss.

Created slides for latent codes and semantic codes.

Initial latent codes identified today:

Dot-to-Dot ink splotts reveal pauses in visible ability – there is jeopardy not only in the material but the creative security?

Some materials, such as ink, needs to be mastered – by artists. Those with sight and those with

sight-loss

Sight loss informs practice by paring down to the essentials of posture and gait

Stoic acceptance and self-reliance is necessary, when invisible

Being explicit about sight-loss is revealing and transparent and art is an expression of sight-loss

Being visible is a negative and being discreet is a positive

Broader considerations of the impact of sight-loss were historically not considered

Hospitals were only interested in acuity ability – sensory perception and colour were not important

Coping strategies can be found without being visible or transparent

Loss of sight unacknowledged

Initial semantic codes identified today:

Loss of functional sight is difficult, but loss of sensory colours was worse

Obsession with light, when you have visual impairment.  is understandable for obvious reasons

Seeing is not an involuntary thing – for those with sight-loss it’s a conscious awareness continuously

Seeing in shallow flattened space naturally lends itself to drawing in 2D

High contrast pens and ink are easier than pale pencil

Progressive sight loss requires an adaptive and flexible attitude to exploring new materials

New materials are explored as a result of necessity

Mastering a medium is a necessary process for both artists with sight and those with sight-loss

Acceptance of the limitations of the medium and sight-loss allow for growth and new experiments with materials