Golden Blindness

Golden Blindness is a series incorporating braille and gold leaf on paper, a tactile meditation on perception and the unseen.

Gold leaf shaped in organic formations, perhaps with associations to a Rorschach test, may reflect our perspective on the world and open a pathway to our inner landscape. The braille reads "I cannot see myself"  and was developed in collaboration with the Blindness Institute.

‘I cannot see myself’ was one of the statements that surfaced while Mille Kalsmose was under hypnosis. Both in a physiological sense as Kalsmose entered an altered state of mind, but also from a philosophical or even spiritual point of view. If you cannot see yourself, the task of discovering who you are becomes a both demanding and meticulous task. You dig your way through years of material, unravelling your identity in the same way that an archeologist excavates the past or a scholar interprets a poem. This type of blindness does not only bring your own being into question, but also the world and how it appears. 

Perhaps the Golden Blindness was what the alchemists were aiming at in their search to turn lead into gold.