This is inspired by conversations with my father one year before his death while battling and surrendering to total blindness—not complete darkness, but a shifting perception of abstract shapes and colors. With his impairment and my own partial vision loss, we found common ground in the fragile ways sight persists. Our conversations turned to his youth, lost love, and the farm he grew up on, and having little money. Using a modified camera lens, I translated his descriptions into images that blur form and dissolve clarity. The work reflects how vision loss reshapes memory, grief, and resilience, while opening space for new ways of seeing. Image Description: Abstract photograph of blurred pink, white, and green forms against a vivid blue background, resembling a flower in motion.