Data Analysis- Critical Reflection – Coding Memo_048 30 June 2020. David interview. Phase 1

Critical Reflection – Coding Memo_048  30 June 2020. David Interview

Process and flow of coding ideas:

Phase 1: Immersing myself in the data identifying codes to include context and deeper understanding or intention and actively searching and identifying coded extracts that will create cohesive sub-themes in later phases of reflexive thematic analysis.

Initial codes identified today:

Not knowing if the artistic output reflects the intention is not a concern; as it will never be known by the artist who has sight loss

Visually descriptive words spark and access the internal data library of associations and thoughts

Visual words describing  colour evoke powerful memories

Both the sighted and non-sighted have internal visual libraries

Inner libraries of visual date inform judgements

Descriptive words act as reactive cues, enabling access to internal visual data libraries

The collaborative process is important and very much part of the creative process

Objects submerged suggest there is more to comprehension than meets the eye.

Sighted people can visually conduct  a broad sweep of awareness, to comprehend large scale; that is not possible with sight-loss

With blindness only a fraction of an object, via touch, can be understood

With blindness a lot of distal and proximal visual datas is lost. Sound and touch inform spatial properties.

There are many ways to perceive the same object

If six blind persons touched the same large scale object in a different place, there would be six differing perceptions

Small scale maquettes of large scale sculptures, enable those with sight loss to comprehend scale

3D printed objects of large scale objects enable tactile touch and representation

Touch of small scaled objects brings big pieces closer and scale can be understood

A positive outlook regarding how to comprehend visual data without sight, is a benefit

Super scale braille represents how large scale objects lose their meaning

Only by standing back or having large scale objects, scaled down, can large size be understood

External sculptures are prone to vandalism

Teenagers play up to a point and then can become destructive.

Interaction with sculpture is part of the process

Large scale, or minute scale can be impossible to comprehend

There are good things that can come from disability and blindness

There are positive sides to sight loss, known as disability gain.

There are creative positives because of blindness, not in spite of it.

Blindness can create and produce some interesting creative possibilities

A lot of disability comes from the environment that is around us.

If steps are removed from a wheelchair user’s life, they will feel less disabled

Disability is a socially imposed thing

Disability is to do with how environments are constructed, not just to do with the loss of ability to walk

Assistance is sometimes required with the practical element of fixing pianos

The social model has now led onto the idea of disability gain.

The essence of something can be distilled from other things

Revisiting visuality through talk is a thrilling experience, as internal pictures can be visualised

Positive personal disposition helps with adjusting to sight loss.

Colour descriptions require assistances.

Memory informs comprehension of colour

Active listening and deep touching provide depth of understanding of environment

Recollection of colour can happen years after sight loss

Listening to not only dialogue but intonations, environment and sounds brings deeper comprehension

There is more to be explored in the discovery of our sensory tool kit

It is possible to derive so much more from spatial environments by listening intently and to

what is actually going on.

From experience of good acuity to sight loss, memories inform practice

Colour perception reduction led to using monochrome

With peripheral sight reduction and colours all reducing simultaneously, monochrome colours were preferred for painting.

The shape of something can be delineated through mime or 3D points

Points of touch represented in 3D space can represent an object’s qualities

Blindness is a strength with experience of the moment of touch

For sighted people a visual sweep of awareness is possible

Sighted people can look before touching, to discern danger; with blindness this is not possible.

With blindness touch is one of the ways of understanding the world

Sound and technology are an exciting advancement in creative practices

Architectural methods of creating 3D models can be utilised to build models

Accessible films and be contentious

Integrating audio description throughout a film or play doesn’t have to inhibit the creative process