Visual Descriptions: Juliana Capes Through funding from British Art Network for our collaborative project, we were delighted to be able to commission four visual descriptions of artworks chosen by members of the Emerging Curators Group. We hope these detailed descriptions by artist and visual describer Juliana Capes will act as a lasting resource for sharing these artworks in a more accessible way. Juliana Capes is an artist and researcher based in Edinburgh -over the last 15 years, she has worked extensively with a Visually Impaired audience, notably as lead artist on the National Gallery of Scotland’s Visual Impairment programme. We were first introduced to Juliana's work through her Sunset Reports which we recommend listening to here: http://www.julianacapes.co.uk/artwork/sunset-reports/
This is a digital photograph taken from a film by the Scottish artist Saoirse Amira Anis. This color film was made in 2022 and is called was called “Symphony for a fraying body”. The film itself shows a costumed tasselled creature filmed performing in coastal settings. The image has wide rectangular, landscape format, the dimensions of a screen. The particular moment this film still captures is the creature standing on a beach looking out to sea. It is a silhouetted humanlike form with its back to us and its open arms to the ocean as a low sun sets or rises over the sand, rocks and waves. The rays of the starlike sun emerge around the side of the torso of the figure. 24
