"More Than Meets The Eye" Animated VR Experience

Process and flow of coding ideas: The pleasure of connection and physical-ness of drawing in an environment. Embracing the mistakes of the medium. Physical ability regardless of sight-loss. Abstract shapes are not only due to sight-loss but because of unfamiliar industrial objects. Sense of scale and space Created slides for latent codes and semantic codes. Initial latent codes considered today: Being immersed in a tangible, panoramic landscape, creates a physicality which is important Embracing the mistakes of the medium is part of the creative process. Happy accidents inform practice for both sighted artists and artists with sight-loss A sense of panoramic vistas creates a sense of freedom. Spatial vistas are similar to the anonymity within large cities and the underground in London Physical tangibility of space and materials inform practice Initial semantic codes considered today: Physicality of materials and place is important. Industrial objects a...

Process and flow of coding ideas: 2D drawings into 3D VR environments. Being able to step into a drawing in VR. Excited to participate and discover possibilities   in VR drawing. Haptic touch in VR to enable engagement. Importance of VR controls being intuitive and not menu driven. Considering a further one-to-one drawing experience with Sally in VR and to record her experience. Created slides for latent codes and semantic codes. Initial latent codes considered today: Despite personal admission that sculpture and concept of 3D space is difficult with non-stereoscopic vision -   the idea of 3D drawing in VR is exciting. The potential to be able to draw in VR is interesting Initial semantic codes considered today: Drawing in VR needs to be intuitive and not menu driven. Paper, ink and physical connection to materials is important; replicating that in VR is necessary Haptic experience would need to represent real experience

Process and flow of coding ideas: Continuation of reviewing, listening and amending transcripts. The process of intense listening allows for silences, gestures, laugh, doubt etc to become apparent and inform latent codes. Considered other’s perception of blindness and shared experiences between sighted and non-sighted. Visual perception and problems creating practice. 2D vs 3D. Curiosity adventure and experience despite limitations. Negative experiences due to stereoscopic vision. Being invisible and ‘part of the furniture’; eyes as objects. Negative feelings toward sight loss. Sighted parents not identifying sight-loss problems. Sighted artists and artists with visual impairment sharing experience of visual impairment. Any sight impairment is disturbing. Artwork making sight-loss and the artist visible – but partially obscured. The beginnings of possible desires and collaborations. Created slides for latent codes and semantic codes. Initial latent codes considered today:...

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 si...

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-lo...

Process and flow of coding ideas: Began by scanning the verbatim extracts identified in coding memo 003 and dragged and dropped into the cognitive thought slide. Moved onto latent codes and resumed transcript at approx. 08:00 minutes in. Awareness of senses of scale, vertiginous height in bright contrast areas could imply safety, and travelling whilst drawing on the escalator into the dark abyss is dangerous. Where dangerous or not in bright light, there is safety in drawing from memory. Considering verbatim extracts that imply independence, confidence or lack of and being unobtrusive. Protection in a herded commuter crowd – as a lone person not going with the flow causes delay to the group. Colour coded verbatim extracts in the scale, light, dark, height category in bright orange, in reference to the Glasgow clockwork orange colours used. Pale pink for fears in the confidence, independence and unobtrusive category. Running the audio against the transcript and amending any erro...