Iomani - Elizabeth Manuel
In this collaboration, Lindsey showed Elizabeth her original artwork ‘Iomani’. Elizabeth has a condition which causes her to ignore the left side of her vision. Elizabeth created a painting to represent what she sees when she looks directly at Lindsey’s original piece.
Lindsey’s original artwork
Lindsey’s Iomani 50 x 50 cm oil on canvas
This painting depicts the interior of a village house in Cyprus at dusk. We are looking through french doors with a with a light voile curtain appearing as a strip down the right hand side of the canvas. To the left this strip is echoed by a dark wall A red tiled floor leads the eye into the room and is interrupted by dust moats, a shaft of sunlight creating a white patch in the foreground.
The furniture is pushed aside and covered in dust sheets, possibly a cupboard or trunk forming a ghostly cube centre right. In the top left quadrant of the picture, a window on the back wall is being enlarged and has yet to be completed. It appears as a dark vertical rectangle in the background wall of pearly creamy grey.
Elizabeth’s interpretation
Elizabeth’s Iomani 50 x 50 cm acrylic on canvas
When compared to Lindsey’s original piece, the left hand side of the room including the white chair and dark square window are missing and the room has shifted to the left to demonstrate Elizabeth missing the left part of her vision.
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