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Santa Lucia

The work was inspired by the artist’s mother’s battle with sight loss. The Braille inscription reads ‘Light in the Dark’. On the lenses of the glasses are printed various images of Saint Lucia, the patron saint of the blind and visually impaired. As a martyr, her eyes were put out and she is always depicted with a bowl in her hand on which her eyes are resting in a pool of blood.

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