2023
Ohne Bild
Bachelor's documentation
180 x 240 mm
Digital printing at Buch- und Offsetdruckerei H. Heenemann Berlin
Phantasy — in this work equated with imagination — describes the psychological ability to develop non-present, so-called mental images and to bring them up with the inner eye, similar to visual perception. The fact that this ability is not equally strong among everyone and in some cases even does not exist at all has been receiving more attention over the past few years. Aphantasia describes exactly this phenomenon: a limited or even absent voluntary visual imagination. Ideas remain abstract and the translation from word to concrete image does not happen. »Ohne Bild« (»Without Image«) asks: What could the visual translation of this non-visual phenomenon look like? And what creative potential does it offer for us? In this work Rhoda Herold explores a/her creative perspective on aphantasia. Deconstructed type represents metaphorically the imagination with aphantasia.