“Dark, dark, dark, irrecoverably dark”
Samson Agonisties - John Milton
To be visually impaired may be a scourge to any prospective artist. Distortions in the visual plane prevent them from gazing into the true nature of things, and they can no longer distort reality, as there is no base reality to distort. However, in a few cases the visually impaired have actually turned the punishment applied to them by God into a blessing. This piece considers the influence of Monet’s cataracts in relation to the partial sightedness of contemporary artist Thomas Ruff and transposes them with the melody of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolude. Elements of Caravaggio add both a smooth melody but also contribute to the sensory assault, with bombastic choral sequences developed to underlie a rich and homely tune, which at once causes the listener to both relax, but also question the very nature of their own perception.
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