Data Analysis_ Critical Reflection – Coding Memo_007 30 April 2020. Sally Interview 20 January 2020. Phase 2. Generating initial codes

Process and flow of coding ideas:

Resumed looking at transcripts at approx. 29 minutes in. Reflected upon verbatim extracts around the idea of transparency & visibility vs discreet and opaque. Representation and abstraction, luminosity, visual perception informing practice and constant awareness. Inserted the current research questions into the slides, when I could begin to form a link. Research questions may evolve and adapt throughout the data coding process.

Created slides for latent codes and semantic codes.

Initial latent codes identified today:

Drawings of strangers allows for discreet observation. Both the subject matter and the artist are invisible and anonymous.

Things and tools aid sight-loss; people don't.

Transparent drawings of individuals, layered an viewed in groups, echoes the idea of a lone person layered into commuter crowds.

Colours are invisible, yet known, but hospitals “turn a blind eye”

People don’t discuss problems with their sight; it’s better to be self-sufficient

Functional sight is necessary; but sensory sight and colours are important and desired

The is unconscious competence and therefore, security, in implementing familiar art practice to represent the experience of sight-loss

Using metaphorical depictions of sight-loss through photography and luminosity is a creative language for representing sight-loss

Artwork that depicts abstract concepts of sight-loss allows objectivity

Through abstraction and representation, using luminosity and large-scale projection, the artwork is more objective and anonymous.

Initial semantic codes identified today:

Acceptance of the limitations of flattened perspective is an advantage for 2D artwork

Non-stereoscopic sight lends itself to 2D

3D perception is compromised with non-stereo scopic vision

2D practice is a natural fit for flattened perception

Cognitive visual comprehension is a constant; it is not an involuntary act