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what’s in front of you. I would argue blind and partially sighted people
‘see’ more than sighted people as they connect with the immediate
environment around us in a more sensitive and informed way. The
notion of ‘seeing’ is complex and misunderstood. Since losing my sight
I have observed and gained more from visual images than when I had
sight. I think I took seeing for granted and never actually reflected
on what I had seen or observed. In many ways, I was lazy and not in
touch with my inner self and the connection or meaning in what I had
seen. When you lose your sight, everything becomes an adventure.
We hope that these articles provide a snapshot of our intentions to
being a catalyst to further debate and experimentation on the journey
to ‘opening up’ art, culture and heritage to all audiences – and that it
begins to demystify audio description and its power to embrace and
explore what is really in front of us.
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