I have spent more than three decades experiencing a visual world that is continually disappearing, fragmenting and reforming. As vision fades, seeing does not simply stop. The brain adapts. Fragments of sight encounter imagination and memory. What disappears from vision can persist in other forms.
Landscape, for me, has therefore become something larger than a view.
It is light remembered. Weather felt against the body. The texture of paint beneath the hand. Sound moving through space. A horizon reconstructed from fragments.
In my current practice, painting sits within this larger multisensory field. Oil, texture, raised line, sound, touch and artist books operate across different registers of perception. None is simply a substitute for sight.
This changes the question of accessibility too.
I do not want accessibility to be something attached to an artwork after it has been made. I want touch, sound and tactile interpretation to participate in the language of the work itself.
What disappears from vision persists in memory.
Light becomes material.
And perhaps landscape never belonged to eyesight alone.
Memory and Light: Explorations of a Multisensory Landscape opens at Art & Collectors Gallery, Melbourne, on 28 November 2026.
Featured Image at top:
Movement of Light No. 11, 2026 (Detail)
From the Atmospheric Series: Riders on the Storm
Oil on board
H 22.9 × W 12.7 cm (9 × 5 in)
© Erica Tandori 2026