In 2015 I was diagnosed with Benign Intracranial Hypertension, the book focuses on my condition and how it has affected me. This summer I fell really ill, I spent weeks in and out of the hospital, during this time my condition deemed to get worse by the minute to the point where I lost sight in both of my eyes meaning that I could only see a strip of light. After some time, I had a procedure done to relieve the pressure and to what I thought my eyesight would come back however this wasn’t the case. I now can only see fully out of one eye. I want to show this through my work and to create work, which reflects on the fact I am now visually impaired by demonstrating the lighting technique to replicate how I see. I have focused on particular parts of the body and facial expressions to represent how I felt during this time and parts that I felt myself become more self-conscious of. Having a loss of sight heightens all your other senses, which has made me so conscious of the things I do in my everyday life; I couldn’t walk unassisted, I couldn’t put make up on, I couldn’t put outfits together and this work reveals a creative mindset as to how I have dealt with all of those things, and what I saw through my eyes. This work provides an insight through my eyes, and how I see.
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