Poetry. Art. "When artist and poet Elizabeth Goldring found a way to use technology for visual art, the images she captured on her damaged retinas became "frozen traces of seeing, the memory of words that move and flow into meaning." These exquisite prints are grounded on the image of her optic nerve, "individual as a thumbprint," to embody not only Goldring's remarkable vision but the very process of creation. As a poet, Elizabeth Goldring pushes through silence to speak. As a visual artist who is blind, she uses darkness ...
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Poetry. Art. "When artist and poet Elizabeth Goldring found a way to use technology for visual art, the images she captured on her damaged retinas became "frozen traces of seeing, the memory of words that move and flow into meaning." These exquisite prints are grounded on the image of her optic nerve, "individual as a thumbprint," to embody not only Goldring's remarkable vision but the very process of creation. As a poet, Elizabeth Goldring pushes through silence to speak. As a visual artist who is blind, she uses darkness to frame the world she allows, then compels us to see. Eye is a work of transformative--and great--art." --Hilda Raz
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