From Professor Whitestick’s Blog:
Following on from my post regarding the Edinburgh Art Festival and my visit to the Anton Henning exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery, I returned to the gallery for the launch of Pandora’s Light Box. I had been invited to take a sneak ‘peek’ on my first visit and had decided that I would definitely go back. I attended the reception on 17th August and was welcomed by Zoe Fothergill of the Talbot Rice Gallery and Susan Humble from Artlink. I was able to meet several people from the visually impaired community and it was good to share in their interactions with others in the community. My own contribution was in lending out my cane to both Zoe and Susan so that they could experience the carpet in the Anton Henning exhibition and do a compare and contrast with the Georgian gallery, to where we later adjourned for drinks and a performance of a poem especially written by Ken Cockburn and performed by Ken and Lorna Irvine from the Scottish Poetry Library (SPL).
A blog by a man with significant sight loss and his encounters with the aid of his white stick (a long cane with a ball on the end). There is no guide dog, but the white stick can be ‘anthropomorphisised’. Sometimes the white stick speaks. If you’re accessing this through a screen reader, you will need help in leaving a comment. I am now posting comments sent via Twitter in the comment section.
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