Paddy Faulkner: ‘Helen & Sadie & Thier Winking Dog’

Audio Description

00:00:00:04 – 00:00:23:17
Speaker 1
Audio description for the piece, Helen and Sadie and their winking dog by artist Paddy Faulkner. This piece is presented on the screen. It is a digital image with one moving element. The moving element will be described shortly. The image is of an old color photograph from 1978 of two sisters, Helen and Sadie, in their living room at home.

00:00:25:01 – 00:00:49:15
Speaker 1
They appear to be in their sixties. They both have medium length white hair and both are wearing clear frame glasses. Helen on the left is wearing a dark blue dress and a light blue cardigan. She’s sitting in a wheelchair, leaning forward to hold the color of a brown dog. Only the dog’s head is visible at the bottom of the picture, and it has yellow shining eyes reflecting the light from the camera flash.

00:00:50:13 – 00:01:29:10
Speaker 1
The only moving element of the whole piece is the occasional winking of one of its yellow eyes. Sadie in the center of the image is sitting on the edge of a small sofa. She’s wearing a light blue cardigan and a light brown skirt. Sadie’s right arm is around Helen’s shoulder. They are both smiling broadly. Sadies left arm is putting a black and white dog, which is sitting alongside her on the sofa in front of two large red and pink shiny cushions and a large print library book by Dee Stevenson and entitled The House of the Deer on the Dark Brown Sideboard Behind the SOFA.

00:01:29:24 – 00:01:41:13
Speaker 1
It’s a framed photo of a dog. There are also two vases of dried flowers and there’s a small plastic bottle of holy water in the shape of Our Lady of Lourdes.