9 George IV Bridge Edinburgh EH1 October 25 - November 5, 2010
Terry Adams is a Fife based artist whose art ranges from the abstract through to seascapes of local harbours. Terry has created these paintings to illustrate how people with dyslexia see the world. The paintings show the somewhat existential approach sometimes adopted by people with dyslexic tendency to everyday tasks like reading. Terry Adams' work forms part of “Hidden Dyslexia” ... a series of events running in Edinburgh Libraries in association with Dyslexia Scotland - and organised in partnership with Edinburgh City Libraries and Bank of New York Mellon. This refreshing and exciting body of work will appeal to those with and without dyslexia. My Daughter has mild dyslexia tendencies that were diagnosed at University and it was then that I realised I saw similar patterns on pages of written text.
During discussions with my daughter I realised that every page that has ever been written has a number of different paintings based on the harmonics and symmetry of spaces and negative spaces. This led to my first painting in an attempt to illustrate the effect of dyslexia in a visual art form.
Although it is recognised that Dyslexia is not an exclusively visual phenomena, in discussion with individuals having dyslexic tendencies, the symptoms are often referred to in visual terms. We are trained at an early age to recognise, focus and concentrate on the positive shapes whilst ignoring the negative shapes.
On the page of a book, for example, the background is assumed to be the negative while the text is positive. Without the text there is nothing to analyse and mentally compute.
Individuals with dyslexic tendencies see things both ways - often the spaces between letters, words, sentences and paragraphs are promoted and form patterns, frequently referred to as rivers. These patterns create their own harmonics and tempo resulting in the page appearing to dance before ones eyes. In order to read the message these patterns need to be suppressed and concentration forced to focus on the text.
Those who can intellectually conceptualise, and those who are gifted with the ability to see beyond their initial training will recognise the hidden beauty and harmonics existing within this symmetry on the selected pages which these paintings represent. Or know someone who has If this body of work has appealed to you in any way... And if you can - do visit this exhibition at 9 George IV Bridge Edinburgh EH1 October 25 - November 5, 2010 Top | Other Exhibitions | Home To reproduce this article on your website, please call... Tel: +44(0)141946 5032 or email artinscotland.com # ta10dys |
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