by Vanessa Potter | Jan 6, 2016 | Blindness
I have been acquired. I’m still getting used to the term, and to saying it without sniggering; but I’m getting there. When I look back three years ago, coming home from hospital, a shuffling old lady with wild hair, walking stick and huge owl-like eyes, I...
by Vanessa Potter | Dec 20, 2015 | Blindness
Ask a child what is cleverer – a brain or a computer? and you get a volley of conflicting answers thrown back at you. I can vouch for this personally, as I stood in front of a room full of ten year olds earlier this year and put that exact question to them. I...
by Vanessa Potter | Mar 4, 2015 | Blindness
Sometimes we don’t know where we are going, until we get there… I’m convinced someone highly influential has already uttered those prophetic words; if not, then somebody really should have. The very start of this enterprise, this mission, wasn’t anything...
by Vanessa Potter | Sep 10, 2014 | Blindness
I hate science: well that’s what I would have spouted, hands on hip, blinking my fringe out of my eyes, aged 13. I was so disenchanted with all things Bunsen burner and periodic tables that I acquired a spectacular ‘unclassified’ result in my...
by Vanessa Potter | Jun 30, 2014 | Blindness
So, it was rude of me to leave you dangling, so let me introduce you to Talking to Lampposts properly.What is it? Well, I keep calling it an exhibition; but it is so much more than that; it’s an experience, an affecting encounter. You can’t just breeze through this...
